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

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the students I have taken the essence of those works and com-
piled this small work with demonstrations."¹
This shows that Śrîdharâcârya's Bîjagaṇita was an ex-
tensive work on the subject.
Other works ascribed to Śrîdharâcârya
Sudhâkara Dvivedî² thought that Śrîdharâcârya was the
same person as the author of the philosophical work, the Nyâya-
kandalî (written in 991 A.D.), and of the astrological work, the
Jâtaka-paddhati³. S. B. Dîkṣita⁴ also took him to be the same
person as the author of the Jâtaka-paddhati. Unfortunately
there is no definite evidence to identify Śrîdharâcârya with
the author of either of the above two works. There is, how-
ever, some likelihood that the authors of the Triśatikâ and the
Jâtaka-Paddhati were one and the same person. For Viṣṇu
Śarmâ⁵ (c. 1363 A.D.), in his commentary on the Vidyâmâ-
dhavîya, while quoting from the Triśatikâ and the Jâtaka-
Paddhati, does not differentiate between the authors of the two
works, and refers to both of them by the name of Śrîdhara.
N. C. Jaina⁶, presuming that Śrîdharâcârya was a Jaina,
identified him with the authors of the following works :
(i) Jâtaka-tilaka (in Kannaḍa), written in 1049 A.D.
(ii) Lîlâvatî (in Kannaḍa), written after 1150 A.D.
¹ ब्राह्माह्वयश्रीधरपद्मनाभबीजानि यस्मादतिविस्तृतानि ।
आदाय तत्सारमकारि नूनं सयुक्तियुक्तं लघु शिष्यतुष्ट्यै ॥
² See Sudhâkara Dvivedî, Gaṇaka-taraṅgiṇî (or Lives of Hindu Astro-
nomers), Banaras (1933), pp. 22, 24.
³ The date of this work is not known, but it was written earlier than
the Jâtaka-paddhati of Śrîpati (1039 A.D.).
⁴ See S. B. Dîkṣita, l. c., p. 312.
⁵ See Vidyâmâdhavîyam by Vidyâmâdhava. Edited with the commen-
tary, entitled Muhûrta dîpikâ, of Viṣṇu Śarmâ by R. Shamasastry, Mysore
(1923, 1925, 1926).
⁶ See N. C. Jaina, 'Śrîdharâcârya', Jaina-Siddhânta-Bhâskara, Vol. 14,
No. 1, pp. 31-42. Also see S. Śrîkantha Śâstrî, 'The date of Śrîdharâcârya',
The Jaina Antiquary, Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 12-17, for the criticism of N. C.
Jaina's views.