सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि: गणिताध्याय (भास्कराचार्य - ग्रहगणित, मध्यमाधिकार व स्पष्टाधिकार सटीक)

ix 4. This work indeed sucked the very blood out of me. It contains many a new detail unnoticed hitherto. Only unbiased scholars could under- stand the essence of this work. If somebody pronounces unknowingly that this is all a repetition of what has been already written, simply having turned out a few pages, how could he know where I showed new aspects of the genius of Bhāskara ? 5. He, who does not study the Siddhānta Śiromaṇi of Bhāskarācārya, and feels that he is a scholar reading a few other sub-standard books on Hindu astronomy, does verily go to bathe in a dirty pond, ignoring the holy Ganga, jumping down the heights of the Himalayas in surging and dancing billows ! D. ARKASOMAYAJI