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Grahalāghava

ग्रहलाघव

Gaṇeśa Daivajña · Epoch 1520 CE · ganita

What this text is

The dominant working handbook of early-modern pañcāṅga computation in North and West India.

Simplified planetary computation without trigonometry — the karaṇa whose tables generations of printed pañcāṅgas actually used.

Its role in this app

The "working pañcāṅga karaṇa" lineage witness — context for why printed pañcāṅga conventions look the way they do.

Editions our research holds

  • grahalaghava-karanam

    With Madhurī vyākhyā (DLI) — the better scan.

    public domain · scan quality: usable

  • ganesa-daivajna-no-142

    DLI edition with Hindi commentary (no. 142).

    public domain · scan quality: usable

Readings on this site cite texts at chapter level, with verse numbers only where our research verified the passage in a named edition. How conflicts between texts are resolved is documented on the conventions page.