सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि: गणिताध्याय (भास्कराचार्य - ग्रहगणित, मध्यमाधिकार व स्पष्टाधिकार सटीक)

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4. This work indeed sucked the very blood out of
me. It contains many a new detail unnoticed
hitherto. Only unbiased scholars could under-
stand the essence of this work. If somebody
pronounces unknowingly that this is all a
repetition of what has been already written,
simply having turned out a few pages, how could
he know where I showed new aspects of the
genius of Bhāskara ?
5. He, who does not study the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi
of Bhāskarācārya, and feels that he is a scholar
reading a few other sub-standard books on
Hindu astronomy, does verily go to bathe in a
dirty pond, ignoring the holy Ganga, jumping
down the heights of the Himalayas in surging
and dancing billows !
D. ARKASOMAYAJI