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

INTRODUCTION xxv
The Triśatikâ, being more elementary and better sui-
ted to the needs of the people in general, attracted more
readers and seems to have been comparatively more popular,
as is evident from the following facts :
(1) Whereas there is only one manuscript of the Pâṭīgaṇita
available at present, manuscripts of the Triśatikâ are
known to exist at several places in India.¹
(2) Whereas we are aware of only one commentary on
the Pâṭīgaṇita, we know of the following five com-
mentaries on the Triśatikâ:
(i) A commentary by Śambhûnâtha.²
(ii) A commentary by Vṛndâbana Śukla.³
(iii) A commentary by Vallabha in Telugu.⁴
(iv) An anonymous commentary in Kannaḍa.⁵
(v) An anonymous commentary in Gujarâtî.⁶
It is noteworthy that the last-mentioned three
commentaries were written in the regional langu-
ages of India. This is another evidence of the
great popularity of this work.
(3) Manuscripts of the Triśatikâ that are now available
exhibit a remarkable divergence in their texts.

¹ Manuscripts of the Triśatikâ exist in the Central Library, Baroda;
the Oriental Institute, Baroda; the Sanskrit College Library, Banaras;
the Anup Sanskrit Library, Bikaner; the West Punjab University Library,
Lahore; the Library of the India Office, London; the British Museum,
London; the Lucknow University Library, Lucknow; the Jaina Matha,
Moodbidri; the Curator’s Office Library, Trivandrum; and the Scindhia
Oriental Institute, Ujjain.
² Mentioned in the Catalogue of Manuscripts from Guzerat.
³ Mentioned by Dr A. N. Singh.
⁴ A palm-leaf manuscript of this commentary occurs in the Jaina
Matha, Moodbidri. See कन्नडप्रान्तीय ताडपत्रीय ग्रन्थसूची, published by the
Bhâratîya Jñânapîṭha, Kashi, p. 169, MS. No. 781.
⁵ A manuscript of this commentary exists in the Library of the India
Office, London. See Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prâkrit Manuscripts in the
Library of the India Office, Oxford (1935), p. 781, MS. No. 6317.
⁶ A manuscript of this commentary exists in the Oriental Institute,
Baroda, Accession No. 4660. Some extracts from this manuscript have
been quoted by Bhogilal J. Sandesara in his paper, entitled ‘Weights,
Measures and Coinage of Mediaeval Gujrat.’ See Journal of the Numismatic
Society of India, Vol. VIII, Part II, 1946, pp. 138-146.