Khandakhadyaka
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Khaṇḍakhādyaka(meaning "edible bite; morsel of food" ) is aSanskrit-languageastronomicaltreatise written by Indian mathematician and astronomerBrahmaguptain 665 CE.[1]The treatise contains eight chapters covering such topics as the longitudes of the planets, diurnal rotation,lunarandsolar eclipses,risings and settings, themoon's crescentandconjunctionsof the planets. The treatise also includes an appendix which in some versions has only one chapter, and in other has three.
The treatise was written as a response toAryabhata'sArdharatrikapaksa.[1]
Ama-raja alias Ama-sharman (c. 1200) ofAnandapurawrote a commentary titledVasana-bhashya(IAST:Vāsanābhāṣya) onKhanda-khadyakaduring theChaulukyaperiod. This work refers to earlier commentaries on Bhaskara's text, including those byLalla(c. 748 CE), Prthudaka-svamin (c. 864),Utpala,and Someshvara (c. 1040).[2]Khandakhadyakawas known toal-Biruni.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcThomas F. Glick; Steven Livesey; Faith Wallis, eds. (2014).Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia.Routledge.p. 464.ISBN978-1135459390.
- ^David Pingree,ed. (1970).Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A.Vol. 1. American Philosophical Society. p. 50.
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