Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha》(英語表記)Ganitasarasamgraha
Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha (English spelling)

…Years of birth and death unknown. He was a Jain of the Sacred Clothing sect, and nothing is known about him other than that he wrote the famous mathematical book Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha during the reign of King Amoghavarsha of the Rashtrakuta dynasty. In India, mathematics was usually treated as a part of astronomy, but his book is unusual in that it deals only with mathematics, and it seems that he took a unique position as a Jain. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…生没年不詳。空衣派のジャイナ教徒で,ラーシュトラクータ朝のアモーガバルシャ王の治世に有名な数学書《ガニタサーラサングラハGaṇitasārasaṃgraha》を著したという以外何も知られていない。インドでは数学は天文学の一部として扱われるのが普通であったが,彼の著書は珍しく数学のみを扱っており,ジャイナ教徒としての独自の立場をとっているように見受けられる。…

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