35 value of a diagonal of a square in relation to its side, of burning a square into a circle and of burning a circle into a square.* Indeed the science of Geometry like the science of Grammer formed a part of the Brahmanical pheology and fit is not likely that the exclusive Brahmans should have been willing to borrow anything closely connected with their religion from foreigners' + 'Thus bhere is a strong probability that the science of Geometry was invented in India. It was, however not cultivated in India ; because the construction of altary which originated the science fell into disuse owing to bhe rise of Buddhism and he worship ofimages The Bekhgapita, a branslation ot bhe Arabic work on Geometry by Nasir eddin. I being settled bhat the Rekb&gapita is not an original work bhe next question that naturally requires solution is to decide the original of which it is a translation. This proved a very difficult taskNone of the English editions of Geometory that are available to us, neither the celebrated Gregorys edition in bhe ILatin and the Greek, nor the excellent edition of Billingष्ट- ley, the very first version of Euclid in English, contain any of the 5thriking characteristies of the Rekhagamita noted before. Help was sought from some of the Professors of Mathematics. But replies were received from all that they were sorry not to be able to help me in the matter. Knowing that the Arabians were the most zealous cultivators of the Greek sciences of Astronomy and Geometry between the 9th and 14th oenburies and bhat the British Museum might be possessing copies of the Arabic versions of Duclid, I consulted the Secretary of the Oriental Department of the British Museum, London, about bhe original of bhe work, informing him of some of the cha e
- चतुरसं मी विकीर्यन्मघ्यावं नियात्र तत्पार्श्वतः परिलिख्य तत्र यतिरिक्तं
आवति तस्य तृतीयेन सह मण्डी परिञ्चित्समाखविधिः। अडङ चतुरमें चिकीर्षन् बिर्लभं पशवशमागान् कृत्वा ब्रडबरेचन करणी । t de p. 24, ‘History of Sanskrit Literature' by A, A. Macdonell.
