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Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars. His most major work was the ''Grahalaghava'' which was included ephemeris and calendar calculations.
Ganesa was born in
Grahalaghava (Hindi)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.448248 Edition by Sudhakar Dwivedi]
Jataka Alankara
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganesa Daivajna Indian astrological writers Indian mathematicians 1500s births Date of death missing
Gaṇeśa Daivajna (born c. 1507, 1520-1554) was a sixteenth century astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician from western India who wrote books on methods to predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, positions, and make calculations for calendars. His most major work was the ''Grahalaghava'' which was included ephemeris and calendar calculations.
Ganesa was born in Nandigrama
Nandigrama is the name of a location, place or region somewhere in Western India where a school of astronomers and mathematicians flourished during the thirteenth-eighteenth centuries CE. David Pingree, one of America's leading historians of the ...
(see also Golagrama) where his father Kesava (fl. 1496-1507) was a Brahmin
Brahmin (; ) is a ''Varna (Hinduism), varna'' (theoretical social classes) within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the ''Kshatriya'' (rulers and warriors), ''Vaishya'' (traders, merchants, and farmers), and ''Shudra'' (labourers). Th ...
astronomer. His mother's name has been noted as Lakshmi and he spent his entire life at Nandigrama. The location of Nandigrama has been suggested by some as being in Gujarat but more careful study of his work places it in Nandgaon in present day Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
. He wrote several works including ''Grahalaghava'', ''Siddhantarahasya'', ''Buddhivilāsinī,'' and ''Laghutithicintamani''. His work ''Buddhivilāsinī'' (c. 1546) includes commentaries on the mathematics of Bhaskara's ''Lilavati''. One of his demonstrations is of the area of a circle calculated by dissection of the circle into a regular polygon. He started with a polygon with 12 sides and doubled it through 24, 48, 96, 192, to 384 and came up with an approximation for pi as 3927/1250. His book ''Muhūrtadipikā'' includes a commentary on his father Kesava's work ''Muhūrtatattva''. Ganesa's grandfather Kamalakara was also an astrologer as were his brothers Ananta and Rama. Works by Kesava include Grahakautuka (1496) on the calculation of eclipses, Jatakapaddhati for the production of horoscopes, and the Tajikapaddhati, which covered Islamic thoughts on astrology.
See also
* Kṛṣṇa Daivajña * GrahalaghavaReferences
External links
Grahalaghava (Hindi)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.448248 Edition by Sudhakar Dwivedi]
Jataka Alankara
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganesa Daivajna Indian astrological writers Indian mathematicians 1500s births Date of death missing