INTRODUCTION
The present volume, issued as Part I of Vateśvara-siddhānta and Gola, contains the Sanskrit text of all the eight chapters (adhikaras) of the Vateśvara-siddhānta, written by astronomer Vațeśvara, son of Mahadatta resident of Vadnagara in northern Gujarat, in 904 A. D. It contains also the Sanskrit text of the first five chapters of the Gola (Spherics) written by the same astronomer. The Sanskrit text of the remaining chapters of Vateśvara's Gola has not survived.
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL
Two manuscripts of the Vateśvara-siddhānta have been discovered so far and these have been used for the present edition. Both are incomplete but one is larger than the other. The larger one will be called Ms. A and the shorter one Ms. B. MANUSCRIPT A. This is No. 46608 of Lucknow University Library, Lucknow, and may be described as follows :
Substance-Paper. Character-Modern Devanāgari. Size-the first 43 leaves 28 cm. x 12.2 cm., the remaining ones 27 cm. x 12.2 cm., (approx). Extent-103 folios; 9 lines per page, and about 40 letters per line. The first 71 folios are numbered as l to 71, the folio-numbers being written on the verso or the left-hand pages of the folios at the top on the left hand margin and also at the bottom on the right hand margin. The first page of the manuscript is left blank and the writing is started from the second page. The folios numbered as 58 to 71 have vateśva (the tachygraphic abbreviation of Vateśvara-siddhānta) written just above the folio number on the left hand margin, the word rāma occurring just above the folio-number on the right hand margin on all folios of the manuscript. The folios occurring subsequent to folio 71, which are slightly darker in colour, were originally numbered as 99 to 129, the verso of the last folio
