Brahmasphutasiddhanta (Complete Sanskrit Text)

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to the vanity of those who feel that in astronomy as in certain other subjects the last word was said by those writers who have written in Sanskrit. We learn how far behind we are in certain very important directions in the field of knowledge.

It is interesting by the way to find that the author of this great work was a Vaishya a member of the merchant/agricultural social class. This shows how diffused knowledge even of the most abstract subjects was in those days and how scholarship was honoured irrespective of caste. Not one of the critics of Brahma Gupta has taunted him on the ground of his not being a Brahmana member of the priestly social class.

Sampurnanand
Governor-Rajasthan

Raj Bhavan,
Jaipur,
Dated May 4, 1966.