e INTRODUCTION 6 女富为 have also been similarly presented. Minor scribal errors, broken letters etc. have, however, been silently dropped, following accepted editorial practice. 3. TEXTUAL PRESENTATION For the sake of continuous reading, Aryabhata's karikas and Suryadeva Yajvan's commentary thereon have been presented in the following pages in one sequence, the textual verses being set in bold type. The commentary does not abound in citations from earlier works, but in the case of the citations that do occur, due efforts have been made to trace them to their sources. The numerical figures that occur in the commentary have been duly verified and wherever the manuscripts do not give the numbers they have been calculated and added within brackets. Conventional punctuation marks like the comma, colon, semi colon, hyphen, dash, quotation marks etc. have been freely incorporated into the running commentary in order to facilitate comprehension by modern readers. 教 Subject headings have been supplied to the several topics dealt with in the text and the commentary. Y Helpful folio headings have been supplied indicating the names of the sections and the topics dealt with in the corresponding pages. The relevant verse numbers have also been indicated at the top of the pages. 4. SURYADEVA YAJVAN 1. Personal details In his different works, the name of Suryadeva is suffixed with the surname Suri, Yajvan or Somasut.* While the term suri refers to ·a·-
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1. Cf. इति प्रकाशो गदितः सूर्यदेवेन सूरिणा । अनेन गीतिसूत्राणामर्थान् पश्यत पण्डिताः । (Colophon to com. on Aryabhaṭīya, Gitikā-pāda) 2. Cf. त्रिस्कन्धार्थविदा सम्यक् सूर्यदेवेन यज्वना । संक्षिप्यार्यभटप्रोक्तसूत्रार्थोऽत्र प्रकाश्यते ॥ Intro. to com. on A ABh.S. iv ( om. on Aryabhaṭīya)
