522 SOME OPINIONS 'The first half of the S%ddhanta-४ehead of Sripati (1028 A.C.) is going to see the light of day. 'I'he search for some manuscripts of the work initiated by the late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee and Prof. N. K. Mazumdar of the Department of Pure Mathematics of our University was "deputed for the purpose. He obtained three manuscripts which though generally very corrupt, formed the basis of the present _- _edition. One of them contained the first portions of a Sanskrit commentary by Makkibhatta, which - helped. much in editing the work up to Chapter IV. 'The editor, Pandit Babua Misra has added a commentary of his own to the remainder. He is to be congratulated on the way in which he has done his work from such faulty materials, as he had to face almost insurmountabla obstaoles in his way. It is hoped that the present edition of this 65 missing but frequently preferred to " work of Sripati will be hailed with ठूetight-by-all-students of the history of the Hindu science of astronomy and mathematics, Some of the special features of Srpati's work are detailed by the editor in his Sanskrit introduction. The most notable ones appeat to be -- (1) That snipati was the first Hindu astronomer to discover bhe part of the equation of time due to the obliquity of the ecliptic. Hence Bhaskara II's claim for its discovery is now ontenable. (2) That he follows Manjula (982 A.C.) in giving the second inequality of the moon in combination with a part of the chief term of her equation of the centre. In will be seen that Sripati bases his work on the works of Brahmagupta (628 A.C.), Lala (748 A.C.) and Manjula (9082 A.C.) Our author was prior to Bhaskara II by about a century. CALCUTTA P. O. SENGUPA, M.A., The 19t. April, 1982 Lecturer, Calcutta Unive'sity }
