Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Ganika Nanda

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GANIKA NANDA.

Was an arithmatecian who flourished at the commencement of the fourteenth century of the aere of Salivahana. During his infancy he was well instructed in the Sanscrit tongue, and in his youth composed an astrological work entitled "Ganita Ananda : it was at first, circulated amongst his immediate friends and relation, but in course of time it was transcribed and dissiminated among the learned.