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The facile method enunciated by Mādhava for the corinputation of Moon seems to have caught the fancy of later astronomers who have pursued it further. They used fresh dates and revised figures for calculations and extended the method by introducing immo vations with a view to securing greater accuracy. It has been possible for the present writer to identify the undermentioned texts of this genre, which are mostly anonymous. 1. Drg-721arollakriya, in 14 verses, beginning with verydrolha kriya seyaा71 43arita'tra likhyate, an uncatalogued anonymous tract found inscribed on f. 163-65 of Ms. 5867 of the Kerala University Orienta1 Res. Institute, Trivandrum 2. 3. 4. PREFACE Verwaroha:stakd by Putumana Somayāji, in 8 verses beginning 5. Sk:$710-21dr(spluta10]/07107, in 15 verses, beginning in some of the miscellaneous leaves at the end of a manuscript of /ervarold in the private collection of the Elamprakkotatu Mana, Eravoor (Tripunithura, Kerala), with an incomplete commentary in Malayalam The two tracts noticed below, found in the same codex in said miscellaneous leaves, are also related to the We१1ydroll40 : A short tract in Another short tract with 10 verses, beginning with sाk71eta diruva in 8 the verses, beginning with dhiputir It is proposed to bring out a critical edition of these tracts also, 11 due course, along with the awarolla of Mādhava 1. The ider:1 ification of such works is a problem for the reason that these short tracts are, more often than not, found inscribed in stray leaves at the ends of manuscripts and are left uncatalogued as insignificant sets of verses which do not mak2 up full-fledged texts. (Quite the ends of manuscripts are clubbed together in catalogues under innocuous