Fractional Parts of Āryabhaṭa’s Sines and Certain Rules Found in Govindasvāmin’s Bhāṣya on the Mahābhāskarīya

K. Ramasubramanian ()
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K. Ramasubramanian: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

A chapter in Gaṇitānanda, 2019, pp 333-343 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The commentary of Govindasvāmin (circa $$ {\textsc{ad}} $$ 800-850) on the Mahābhāskarīya contains the sexagesimal fractional parts of the 24 tabular Sine-differences given by Āryabhaṭa I (born $$ {\textsc{ad}} $$ 476). These lead to a more accurate table of Sines for the interval of 225 min. Thus the last tabular Sine becomes.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-1229-8_33

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