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Title

Authors

• Bhāskarācārya, 1114-

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960427703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861295127
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6042770

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for contemplation and study and is a treatise and an ancient textbook on mathematic as derived from planetary movements. The work, also referred to as the Vāsanābhāṣya, is possibly a commentary on the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi or, the Crown jewel of treatises, by the same author.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 14v); alternate title Vāsanābhāṣya supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 14 leaves foliated 1-14, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; small graphs and charts with numbers and calculations found throughout the manuscript.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--India
• Hindu astronomy
• Hindu mathematics
• Astronomy--Mathematics
• Mathematics--India
• Geometry--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Commentaries
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 12v-13r — table f. 13r