The Texts · Gaṇita / Siddhānta — the computational lineage
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.