[ 10 ] digenous science and art of the country. It is not strange therefore that the mathematical science of astronomy has been elegated to the balf-read, illiterate, fortunetellers who are not ashamed to assume the title of mathematician. For, the name mathematician गकःhas been degraded to mean only on astrologer. In this state of indigenous sciences, it is singular to find a man born and brought up in the recesses of the hills of Orissa, far removed from all educational activity and the influence of imported western civilisation, silently threading his way into such a difficult science as mathematics. It is an unique experi ence in the department of national development to find a man re1lly striving after knowledge for its own sake, under diff. culties whose magnitude is no less starting than the boldness of his attempt, This is my apology for bringing before the public, a Sanskrit work written entirely in the way of our ancient Siddhkntas and never meant to see the light. It is the lifelong labbiur of Chandrasekhara Sigha Skrnanta of Orissa, written in a language which few men care to study in these days of English { education. Modern Europe boasts ofdiscoveries, one of which alone would have been the glory of the past. The science of astronomy has been developed to so great an extent as to shed a lustre on the bright records of original and patient researches in the domain of Physical Science. The telescope, the spectroscope, and last but not bhe least, the art of photogrphy, have gone hand in । hand in the service of diligent workers. In these days of } .
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