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Ganitagannadi : Mirror of Mathematics An astronomy text of 1604 CE in Kannada by Sankaranarayana Joisaru of Srgeri This book provides a detailed mathematical analysis along with translation as extracted from the palm leaf manuscripts. It is a commentary on an earlier text called Varsikatantra by Viddanacarya. The Kannada text is reproduced here along with the English translation. This book unveils the rich heritage of scholarship in India, especially in the south. The English translation can be expected to trigger a search for similar texts in regional languages. The ingenuity of the author Sankaranarayana Joisaru, is a testimony to his skills in mathematics and astronomy. Even a quick browse through the pages will leave one wondering at the painstaking efforts to express the complicated procedures as precisely as possible in crisp and concise sentences. BS Shylaja, specialised in astrophysics of massive binary stars, comets, peculiar stars and novae. Her research interests extended to the history of astronomy. She extracted records of celestial events like eclipses, planetary conjunctions and the supernova from stone inscriptions. She also studied the astronomical aspects of temple architecture and astronomy texts of the medieval period. She translated another Kannada text of astronomy dated 1874 on the Transit of Venus. Seetharama Javagal a graduate in engineering, took interest in the hereditary assets of his grandfather. Kalapati Sankaranarayana Joisaru 1903 98. The well preserved palm leaf manuscripts were unfortunately in an archaic script called nandinagari. He did M A in Sanskrit at the age of 63 and learnt the unfamiliar script. He successfully transformed the contents of the palm leaves to Unicode texts.
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