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

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and Mahâvîra have borrowed them from a third common
source. But so long as that third source, if there had really
been one, is not discovered it would not be unnatural to
believe in the first alternative. The possibility that Mahâvîra
might have borrowed from Śrîdharâcârya is ruled out by the
fact that the former was anterior to the latter.
There is another interesting example in the Triśatikâ,
which runs as follows :
कामिन्या हारवल्ल्याः सुरतकलहतो मौक्तिकानां त्रुटित्वा
भूमौ यातस्त्रिभागः शयनतलगणः पञ्चमांशश्च दृष्टः ।
आप्तः षष्ठः सुकेश्या गणक दशमकः संगृहीतः प्रियेण
दृष्टं षट्कञ्च सूत्रे कथय कतिपयैर्मौक्तिकैरेष हारः ॥
(Triś, Ex. 26)
This seems to be inspired by the following example of
the Gaṇita-sâra-saṅgraha, which is typically Mahâvîra's:
काचिद्वसन्तमासे प्रसूनफलगुच्छभारनम्रोद्याने ।
कुसुमासवरसरञ्जितशुककोकिलमधुपमधुरनिस्वननिचिते ॥
हिमकरधवले पृथुले सौधतले सान्द्रचन्द्रमृदुतल्पे ।
फणिफणनितम्बबिम्बा कनकदमलाभरणशोभाङ्गी ॥
पाठीनजठरनयना कठिनस्तनहारनम्रतनुमध्या ।
सह निजपतिना युवती रात्रौ प्रीत्यानुरममाणा ॥
प्रणयकलहे समृध्ये मुक्तामयकण्ठिका तदबलायाः ।
छिन्नावनौ निपतिता तत्त्र्यंशश्चेटिकां प्रापत् ॥
षड्भागः शय्यायामनन्तरानन्तरार्धमितिभागाः ।
षट्संख्यानास्तस्याः सर्वे सर्वत्र सम्पत्तिताः ॥
एकाग्रषष्टिशतयुतसहस्रमुक्ताफलानि दृष्टानि ।
तन्मौक्तिकप्रमाणं प्रकीर्णकं वेत्सि चेत् कथय ॥
(GSS, iv. 17-22)
Note how successfully has Śrîdharâcârya condensed the
matter of six verses into one single verse.
3.5. Popularity of Sridharacarya's Works. The
works of Śrîdharâcârya, being written in simple, clear,
and concise language, were greatly appreciated by the people
in general for whom they were written, with the result that
Indological Truths