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Kanakkusaram (കണക്കുസാരം -- Kaṇakkusāram)
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This edited version of Kanakku Sāram is based on Palm Leaf Ms. D. No. 291 in the Govt. Oriental Ms. Library Madras. It is edited by C. Achyuta Menon and published by Government Oriental Manuscript Library. A digital copy of the text is housed at Granthapura - Kerala Digital Archive.
The text does not name its author. However the author mentions that they base their compilation on the teachings of their Guru, Kaṇakkatikāram and Līlāvatī. The editor has grouped the verses under 6 Chapters. The verses which describes numbers or procedures are followed with problems often. An explanation to verses are often given in prose.
The text appears to combine numbers from both Lilavati and Kanakkatikaram to produce a longer list of numbers. In addition to this it also deals with grain measures, gold measures and so on found in Kanakkatikaram texts. The text also refers to diversity in linear measures, in terms of how a kol may vary from place to place. Rule of three, Rule of five and above, the inverse rule of three etc are explicitly stated and many problems on the same are posed. The text also includes problems to compute interest rates, problems on muthukanakku (on computing value of pearls) and a variety of time measures among other things. - Provenance
- Curated by Granthapura Malayalam Digital Archive as part of their digitisation Program at Dharmaram College, Bangalore.
- Original Title
- കണക്കുസാരം
- Uniform Title
- Kaṇakkusāram
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Language
- Malayalam
- Script
- Malayalam
- Current Repository ID
- Government Oriental Manuscript Library, Chennai
- Item sets
- Malayalam
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