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and thefe with numerous quotations from Br ahmegupta in the Chin- 

 tamani and in other commentaries on ' Bhascara, as well as in the 

 author's notes on his own text, are exaftly conformable .with the Brah«* 

 me-fphuta-fidd'hania now in my poffeflion, and which is accompanied by 

 the glofs of Brahmegupta's celebrated commentator Chaturvida, 



FriT-HUDACA SWAMU 



if appears then from a collation of the paSTages fo cited, that Brah- 

 megupta's work is, at leafl; in part, a paraphrafe of the Brahma or 

 Paitamaha; containing however, additional matter:: and it is accord- 

 ingly termed by one of the fcholiafts of the Surya fiddlianta* a com- 

 mentary, on the Paitamaha ; and Chaturvida's glofs is denominated 

 by the fame fcholiaflj an interpretation of the Paitdmalii-bhajhya, 



In fupport of what has been here faid, I fhall adduce a few inflances 

 of quotation on fubjecls poflefling fome degree of intereiL, 



The fir II is one in which Bhascara vindicates a paflage of Brahme- 

 uupta from the objections of his commentator, quoting the paflage 

 itfelf in his notes, and there naming the fcholiaft, Chaturvida : From 

 which, be it remarked^ the commentary is ascertained to be anterior 





and Brahmegupta by the following couplet 

 • Dapa'shaj, fee p. zg 



