The Crest-Jewel of Siddhantas

...Pandit Chandradeva Vinayak and Shri Mahadev Bhatta published it with their own notes. However, being deprived of the Marichi and seemingly restricted in its expertise, I was encouraged by the world-teacher Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Sudhakara Dvivedi to publish it in the Kashi Vidya Sudhanidhi, a very ancient monthly journal, alongside the Vasanavarttika composed by Nrishima. I began to edit it with my own notes as time permitted, following the path of his feet.

Regarding the purification of the Vasanavarttika, I obtained assistance from my student, the Jyotishacharya and Jyotishatirtha Pandit Shri Buaji Mishra. Observing the inaccuracies even in two manuscripts of the Marichi from Mithila, I felt discouraged. Yet, remembering the feet of my teacher, I published several pages while the venerable ones were still alive. However, due to the mismanagement and laziness of the press, the work moved at an extremely slow pace. Despite abandoning this book many times, it did not abandon me. Thus, by some means or another, the planetary mathematics up to the Madhyamadhikara Chapter on Mean Motions is now presented. I pray to the Lord of the World that it may soon progress further, and I offer my respects to all experts, hoping for their honest feedback to correct the errors of my limited intellect.

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