CE) commentaries there. Commentaries and derivative texts Historical commentaries on the text include: Sanskrit commentary (958 CE) by Prashasti-dhara of Kashmir Sanskrit commentary (1248 CE) by Surya-deva Yajva of Andhra Sanskrit commentary (1409 CE) by Parameshvara of Kerala Sanskrit commentary (1486 CE) by Yallaya of Andhra Sanskrit commentary (1572 CE) by Bhudhara of Kampilya Sanskrit commentary by an unknown author from Karnata-desha (present-day Karnataka) Telugu commentary (1695 CE) by Ayyalu Somayaji Balaya Malayalam commentary (1732 CE), attributed to Puthumana Soamayaji The following historical works are derived from the Laghu-mānasa: A text (1178 CE), possibly a commentary, by Mallikarjuna Suri; quoted in Yallaya's commentary A commentator on Mallikarjuna's work may have been responsible for introducing two corrections in Mañjula's work. Makaranda-mānasa (1478 CE), a now-lost work by Makaranda; mentioned in Bhudhara's commentary; possibly a revised edition of Laghu-mānasa with new initial constants (epoch) Laghu-mānasaritya Surya-chandra-grahananayanam is a 16th-century text based on Laghu-mānasa The following texts adopt Mañjula's rules: Rajamrganka (11th century), attributed to Bhoja of Malwa; adopts several of Mañjula's verses with or without alteration Ganakananda (1460 CE) of Surya Suri alias Suryacharya of Andhra, the teacher of Yallaya Siddhanta-sara (1596 CE) of Mallaya Yajva of Andhra Karanamrta(1530 CE) by Chitrabhanu of Shivapura (Covvuram) in present-day Kerala; adopts several verses Siddhanta-sangraha (1606 CE) of Vira Suri, son of Kottachenna of Andhra Graha-ganita-bhaskara(1613 CE) by Tamma Yajva of Andhra Karana-kamala-martanda of Dashabala; adopts Mañjula's formula for evection, and improves his formula for calculating the hour-angle from the day-length 'Karanottama of Achyuta (died 1621) of Kerala; adopts several verses with or without alteration Critical editions A printed edition with commentary of Parameshvara was published as part of the Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series from Pune in 1944. An English translation by N.K. Majumdar was published from Calcutta in 1951. Kripa Shankar Shukla's critical edition of the text with an English translation and notes was published as a supplement to the Volume 25 of the Indian Journal of History of Science (1990) by the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. It was based on 11 manuscripts, available at Government Oriental Library (Mysore; now Oriental Research Institute), Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Madras), and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University Library (Varanasi). References Bibiliography External links Laghu mānasa with commentary by Paramesvara edited by Balvant Dattatreya Apte 10th-century books Sanskrit texts