Nandigrama is the name of a location, place or region somewhere in
Western India
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where a school of
astronomer
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s and
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
s flourished during the thirteenth-eighteenth centuries
CE.
David Pingree
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, one of America's leading historians of the exact sciences (primarily mathematics) in antiquity, identified Nandigrama with Nandod in
Gujarat
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.
However, modern scholarship has identified Nandigrama as the Nandgaon village in the
Raigad district
Raigad district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːjɡəɖ, previously Colaba fort, Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India.
The district was renamed to Raigad fort, Raigad after the fort that ...
in
Maharashtra State
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.
It lies about 64 km south of Mumbai on the Konkan coast.
Astronomers and mathematicians
Ganesa Daivajna was an astronomer born in 1507 in Nandigrama. His father
Kesava Daivajna and paternal grandfather Kamalakara (not to be confused with
Kamalakara of Golagrama) were also eminent astronomers. Kesava has been considered as one of the best observational astronomers of ancient India. Ganesa authored several important treatises and manuals on astronomy and astrology. Some of them are "Grahalaghava," "Laghu- and Brht-Tithi Chintamani,” a commentary on
Bhaskara II’s "Siddharta Siromani," “Buddhi Vilasini," a commentary on Bhaskara II’s "
Lilavati," "Sraddha nirnaya," “Patasarani,” and “Parva nimaya.” The “Graha Laghava” is extensively used by the Panchanga makers in
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. In the “Graha Laghava,” planetary positions have been given at the instant of sunrise of the new moon day of Palguna of Saka 1441, which corresponds to March 19, AD 1520.
See also
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Jambusagaranagara Jambusāgaranagara (also written as Jambūsāronagara{{cite book, last=Pingree, first=David, title=Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1, url=https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci01ping, year=1970, publisher=American Philosophica ...
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Dadhigrama
Dadhigrama was a village on the banks of Payosni river in Vidarbha where a school of mathematics and astronomy flourished during the 14th to 19th centuries CE.
Cintāmani, a Brahmana of the Devaratragotra, in the middle of the 15th century, Ra ...
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Golagrama
Golagrama is a village or region in India associated with several medieval Indian astronomers, astrologers and mathematicians. Presently there is no place bearing the name Golagrama anywhere in India. It is known that Golagrama was situated in Maha ...
References
Indian mathematics
Medieval Indian astronomers
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