1837.] a Sanskrit translation of Euclid's Elements. 939 



papers in the Researches of your Society and by Colonel Tod in his 

 annals of Rdjputdnd. As a legislator and statesman also he was equal- 

 ly distinguished. His name throughout Rdjputdnd and also in Mdlwd 

 is to this day held in the highest veneration by all classes of the Hin- 

 du population. The Mdrwdri Saukdrs hold it as an article of faith 

 that good fortune will attend their dealings if they take the name of 

 Jaya Singh along with that of their gods in their morning orisons. 



2. I do myself the honor of forwarding to you a few pages of the. 

 Sanskrit work above mentioned containing a prefatory introduction by 

 the translator, the definitions, and a few propositions. I hope that 

 you will be able to find room for it in your valuable and wide- spread 

 Journal. At a time when the friends of education are anxiously busy- 

 ing themselves in collecting vocabularies of scientific terms in Hindi, 

 the publication of even this specimen will not fail to be eminently use- 

 ful to them ; it will afford them the best means of at once enlarging 

 and improving their previous collections of those terms in use amongst 

 Hindu mathematicians of the present day. 



3. The preface from its historical allusions has an interest of its 

 own. Of it 1 have therefore added an English translation. From this, 

 it appears, that the translator was Samrat Jagannatha a brahman, 

 probably the author of the Samrat Siddhdnta a treatise on astronomy 

 generally attributed to Jaya Singh himself. 



4. Dr. Hunter mentions that Jaya Sinha had treatises on plane 

 and spherical trigonometry also translated into Sanskrit. But I have 

 not as yet succeeded in procuring either them, or the Samrdt Sid- 

 dhdnta. My search however has been of but recent date, and I have 

 still hopes that it will not prove fruitless. 



5. The copy of the Rekhd Ganita I procured from a Rajput of 

 Oujein named Kulian Singh at present in my service, who formerly 

 held jagire from Sindia and Holka'r, whom he served in the capacity 

 of astrologer and astronomer, and mathematical instrument maker. It 

 contains 14 books complete, and a part of the 15th book; but the 

 diagrams illustrative of the several propositions have unfortunately 

 been entirely omitted. The work of. supplying them and the letters 

 with correctness so as to coincide with the explanations in the text, 

 will be a tedious, and in some instances a difficult task. 



6. Raja Jaya Singh, in his Tij Muhammad Shdhi addressing his 

 work to the learned and well informed Musalman public, did not 

 venture even to attempt to conceal from it, the obligations under which 

 he was well known to be to the learned Europeans and Muhammadans 

 in his service. Our brahman translator of this work, however is guil- 

 ty of one of those base acts of plagiarism and literary injustice so 



