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

xii INTRODUCTION
“Śrîdharâcârya, having bowed to God Śiva, tells the
essence of gaṇita as extracted from the Pâṭî(gaṇita) composed
by himself for the use of the people.”
Later writers have sometimes called the Pâṭīgaṇita by the
name Bṛhatpâṭî (‘Bigger Pâṭî’, or ‘Bigger Work on Pâṭīgaṇita’)
to distinguish it from the smaller work of the author. Thus
Râghavabhaṭṭa (1493 A.D.) in his commentary, entitled
Padârthâdarśa, on the Śâradâtilaka, referring to the two works
of Śrîdharâcârya, writes :
अत्रापि सूक्ष्मगणनया अङ्गुलत्रयं न्यूनम्। यतस्तेन ‘व्यासार्धवर्गवर्गात् क्षेत्रफलं
दशगुणान्मूलम्’ति श्रीधराचार्योक्तेन प्रकारेण क्षेत्रफलमानीतं तच्च स्थूलम्। यतो गणित-
ग्रंथानामियं शैली यत् स्थूलं सूक्ष्ममपि फलानयनमुच्यते । तत्र भगवता श्रीधराचार्येण ,
बृहत्पाट्यां प्रकारद्वयमप्युक्त्वा तत्संग्रहे त्रिशतीग्रन्थे स्थूला एव प्रकारा दर्शिताः। भास्कराचार्येण
तु लीलावत्यां स्थूला इव सूक्ष्मा अपि प्रकारा उक्ताः। तां बृहत्पाटीं चावलोक्य मया
सूक्ष्मं फलमिदमानीतम्। तदेव सूक्ष्ममिति मन्यते चेत्तदा मूले अत्यन्तं फलाधिक्यं स्यात् ।¹
Some writers on the other hand, have called the Pâṭî-
gaṇita by the name of Navaśatî (‘A collection of 900 verses’),
which shows that this work comprised about 900 verses. The
earliest reference to this name occurs in Makkibhaṭṭa’s com-
mentary (1377 A.D.) on the Siddhânta-śekhara of Śrîpati.
In contradistinction to the name Navaśatî given to the
bigger work, the smaller work (viz. Pâṭīgaṇita-sâra) is called by
later writers by the name Triśatî or Triśatikâ (‘A collection
of 300 verses’). The name Triśatî occurs in the commentary
by Siṁhatilaka Sûri (1215 A.D.) on the Gaṇita-tilaka of Śrîpati,²
in the commentary by Râghavabhaṭṭa (1493 A.D.) on the
Śâradâtilaka³, and in the colophons to some manuscripts of

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¹ See Śaradâtilakam by Lakṣmaṇadeśikendra, with the Padârthâdarśa
commentary by Râghavabhaṭṭa. Edited by Mukunda Jha Bakshi, Banaras
(1934), pages 98-99 (comm.).
² Gaṇita-tilaka by Śrîpati, with the commentary of Siṁhatilaka Sûri,
edited by H. R. Kâpadîâ, Baroda Oriental Institute (1937), pp. 4, 9, 11,
17, and 39.
³ See the passage quoted above.