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This paper is the fourth and the last of the series and deals with quotations from the earlier mathematical works occurring in Bhāskara I’s commentary on the Āryabhaṭīya. Of these quotations, some are taken from such works as were popularly used in the time of Bhāskara I, some are mentioned to point out the approximate character of rules contained in them so as to emphasise the superiority of the corresponding rules given in the Āryabhaṭīya, and some are quoted to find fault with them. Some of these quotations are in Prākṛta gāthās and seem to have been taken from Jaina sources. These quotations show that in the seventh century when Bhāskara I wrote his commentary on the Āryabhaṭīya there existed works on mathematics which were written not only in Sanskrit but also in Prākṛta. These works were probably of the same nature as the Pāṭīgaṇita and the Triśatikā and were probably written by Maskarī Pūraṇa, Mudgala, and Patana etc. whose names have been mentioned by Bhāskara I.
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Kolachana, A., Mahesh, K., Ramasubramanian, K. (2019). Hindu mathematics in the seventh century as found in Bhāskara I’s commentary on the Āryabhaṭīya (IV). 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_9
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