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The earliest references to Vaṭeśvara are found to occur in Rasā’ilul’Bīrūnī (See Mohammad Saffouri and Adnan Ifram, “Al-Bīrūnī on Transits”, pp. 32, 142. “Al-Bīrūnī on Transits” is an English translation of the third treatise included in Rasā’ilul’ Bīrūnī published by the Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau, Hyderabad-Deccan, in 1948.) and Tārikh al-Hind (See Al-Bīrūnī’s India, translated into English by E. C. Sachau, Vol. I, pp. 156, 392.) of the Persian scholar Al-Bīrūnī (b. 973 ad) and in the Siddhāntaśekhara (xviii, 18.) of the Hindu astronomer Śrīpati (1039 ad).
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Kolachana, A., Mahesh, K., Ramasubramanian, K. (2019). Hindu astronomer Vaṭeśvara and his works. In: Kolachana, A., Mahesh, K., Ramasubramanian, K. (eds) Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7326-8_32
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