पाटीगणित (श्रीधराचार्य - प्राचीन संस्कृत टीका एवं प्रो. कृपाशंकर शुक्ल सविस्तार व्याख्या)

INTRODUCTION

1. The present work contains the Sanskrit text of
   Śrîdharâcârya's Pâṭīgaṇita along with an ancient Sanskrit
   commentary and an English translation with relevant notes
   and comments. Śrîdharâcârya's Pâṭīgaṇita deals with
   arithmetic and mensuration and is the author's bigger work
   on the subject. The existence of this work was known to
   earlier scholars working in the field of Hindu Mathematics,
   such as Sudhâkara Dvivedî and S.B. Dîkṣita, from the author's
   own allusion to this work in the opening stanza of his smaller
   work on the subject, which was edited by Sudhâkâra Dvivedî
   in 1899 A.D. under the name of Triśatikā, but it was not
   available to them either in manuscript or in print. Although
   a manuscript of this work existed in the Raghunâtha Temple
   Library at Jammu, it remained unnoticed by the early
   scholars. The late Dr A. N. Singh was the first to discover
   in this manuscript the text of Śrîdharâcârya's bigger work on
   arithmetic and mensuration. While consulting the Catalogue
   of the above-mentioned Library, he came across a manuscript
   which was noticed as follows :¹
   Manuscript Number 3074
   Name of Work Pâṭīgaṇita-ṭīkâ
   Name of Author Śrîdharâcârya
   Number of leaves 157
   Lines per page 9
   Syllables per line 44
   Time of writing the manuscript —
   Remarks—Incomplete. Modern Kashmir script. Name
   of commentator unknown.
   Thinking that it might be a manuscript of Śrîdharâcârya's
   bigger work on arithmetic and mensuration, he ordered a
   ¹ See Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Raghunâtha Temple
   Library of His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, prepared by
   M.A. Stein, Bombay (1894), p. 165.