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Dṛggaṇita of Parameśvara (Critically Edited with Introduction)
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- Title
- en Dṛggaṇita of Parameśvara (Critically Edited with Introduction)
- Language of Original Text
- Sanskrit
- list of authors
- Parameśvara
- list of editors
- K. V. Sarma
- Subject
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Mathematics
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- Description
- Kerala School
- Language of Edited Volume
- English
- Sanskrit
- Publisher
- Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute
- volume
- 30
- edition
- Vishveshvaranand Indological Series
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Source
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Manuscript No. L. 1248-E of the Kerala University Oriental Manuscript Library (KUOML)
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- Description
- This contains only Pt. I of the work
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Manuscript originally belonging to the Kūṭallūr Mana, obtained from the late M. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Palghat
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- Description
- A few folios are missing herein and the portion from II.11 is added in a different hand. The manuscript breaks off at II.22.
- Manuscript No. 411-B of the KUOML, procured from the Kūṭallūr Mana
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Manuscript No. 13300-E of the KUOML
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- Description
- Three folios in the middle lost.
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Manuscript No. L. 1248-I of the KUOML
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- Description
- A set of 15 folios towards the end of the codex, in a different hand, containing Pt. II of the work.
- abstract
- The Dṛggaṇita of Parameśvara, the 14th-15th century astronomer of Kerala, which is published as the Volume 30 of the Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Series, is the basic text of the Dṛk system of astronomical computation followed in South-West India. Though numerous tracts based on the Dṛggaṇita are known and used, the basic text of the system had not hitherto been available and was considered to have been lost forever. However, a patient and diligent search for this work proved faithful and as many as five mutually independent manuscripts could be discovered. The present edition of the work is based on these five manuscripts.
- Description
- The Dṛggaṇita is a classic in the field of Indian astronomy. Revising the prevailing Parahita system of computation, Parameśvara of Vaṭaśreṇi (c. 1360-1455) came up with the Dṛk system, which was widely prevalent in the south-western coastal region of India. This work followed an observation of the skies and astronomical studies over fifty-five years. The text, consisting of two parts, is strictly astronomical and gives the methods for calculating the positions of planets.
- References
- Ulloor, History of Kerala Literature, II. 102
- N. K. Krishna Pillai, Jyotiśśāstrādarśam, II. 242
- P. Sridhara Menon, Yuktibhāṣa (Mangalodayam, Trichur), Intro., p. 4.
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