ब्राह्मस्फुटसिद्धान्त (ब्रह्मगुप्त - शून्य, कुट्टक, बीजगणित एवं सम्पूर्ण २१ अध्याय सान्वय सटीक)

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to the vanity of those who feel that in astronomy as in certain
other subjects the last word was said by those writers who have
written in Sanskrit. We learn how far behind we are in certain
very important directions in the field of knowledge.
It is interesting by the way to find that the author of this
great work was a Vaishya. This shows how diffused knowledge
even of the most abstract subjects was in those days and how
Scholarship was honoured irrespective of caste. Not one the
critics of Brahma Gupta has taunted him on the ground of his not
being a Brahmana.
Sampurnanand
Governor-Rajasthan
Raj Bhavan,
Jaipur,
Dated May 4, 1966.
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