Venvaroha

Veṇvāroha
AuthorMadhava of Sangamagrama (c.1350 – c.1425)
TranslatorMalayalam commentary by Achyuta Pisharati (1550–1621)
LanguageSanskrit
SubjectAstronomy/Mathematics
PublisherMalayalam commentary edited by K.V. Sarma and printed by Sanskrit College, Thrippunithura, Kerala, India
Publication date
Original in 1403 CE. Malayalam commentary printed in 1956 CE.
Publication placeIndia

Veṇvāroha is a work in Sanskrit composed by Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (c. 1350c. 1425), the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. It is a work in 74 verses describing methods for the computation of the true positions of the Moon at intervals of about half an hour for various days in an anomalistic cycle. This work is an elaboration of an earlier and shorter work of Mādhava himself titled Sphutacandrāpti.[1] Veṇvāroha is the most popular astronomical work of Mādhava.[2]

  1. ^ David Edwin Pingree (1981). Census of the exact sciences in Sanskrit. Vol. 4. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 414. ISBN 0-87169-146-9.
  2. ^ Helaine Selin, ed. (1997). "Article by R.C. Gupta". Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer. p. 522. ISBN 978-0-7923-4066-9.