सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि: गणिताध्याय (भास्कराचार्य - ग्रहगणित, मध्यमाधिकार व स्पष्टाधिकार सटीक)

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accepted by Bhāskara also. However, in Brahma Sphuṭa
Siddhānta both as first published as an edition of M. M.
Sudhākara Dwivedi and later by the late Rāmaswarūpa
Śarmā in 1966, the verses 59, 60 of Madhyamādhikāra
suggest that the corrections are negative in the case of all
the planets; whereas both Śrīpati and Bhāskara make them
positive in the case of the latter four viz. Mars, Mercury,
the lunar Node and Saturn. By this we have to construe
that Śrīpati and Bhāskara must have had before them a
text which should have read ‘स्व’ in the place of ‘च’ in the
last pāda of verse 61. M. M. Sudhākara-Dwivedi did not
notice this anomaly of the positiveness of the correction
with respect to the latter four, but he remarked, however,
that there was a prosodial lapse in the last pāda of verse
61, for which he offered a suggestion that instead of वेदैर्,
we had better read वेदैः:—This suggestion, no doubt, rec-
tifies the prosody of the verse, but not the the anomaly
cited above which was not noticed by M. M. Sudhākara
Dwivedi. So, we have offered our own suggestion namely
that in the place of च as mentioned above if we read स्वं,
we not only rectify the prosodial error but also the anomaly
referred to. Rāmaswarūpa Śarma noted the anomaly but
did neither refer to the prosodial error nor offer a correc-
tion. It seems that Rāmaswarūpa Śarma did not verify
the corrections stipulated from the verses 91, 92, 93 of
Madhyamādhyāya of Siddhānta Śekhara. In this latter
work, there is another anomaly namely that in the case of
Mercury, the number 62 is the multiplier and not 52.
Makkibhaṭṭa, the ancient commentator had before him a
text which read 62 in the place of 52, in all probability, a
mistake of the scribe. M. M. Sudhākara Dwivedi is repor-
ted to have later pronounced that 52 must be the correct
figure when this was brought to his notice as this number
52 was found both in Brahmagupta and Bhāskara. As re-
ported by the editor of Siddhānta Śekhara Pandit Babuaji
Mishra, who mentions this latter pronouncement of Sudhā-
kara Dwivedi his teacher, also says that Sudhākara Dwi-