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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Jambusāgaranagara'''<ref name="Bag">{{cite journal|last=Bag |first=A.K. |title=Indian literature on mathematics during 1400 &ndash; 1800 AD |journal=Indian Journal of History of Science |date=May 1980 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=75&ndash;93 |url=http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005af2_79.pdf |accessdate=3 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309124530/http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005af2_79.pdf |archivedate= 9 March 2012 }}</ref> (also written as '''Jambūsāronagara'''<ref name="Pingree">{{cite book|last=Pingree|first=David|title=Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Volume 1|url=https://archive.org/details/censusofexactsci01ping|year=1970|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-081-4}} (see p.81 &ndash; 84)</ref>) is a place or region in [[India]] where a school of [[astronomer]]s and [[mathematician]]s flourished during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries [[BCE|CE]]. The location of this place has not been definitely identified.<br />
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Gangadhara, son of Govardhana and grandson of Divakara and younger brother of Vishnu and Laksmidhara, was a prominent [[mathematician]] of the Jambusagaranagara school who wrote Ganitamrtasagari a [[Criticism|commentary]] on [[Lilavati]] of [[Bhaskara II]] and who flourished around 1420 [[BCE|CE]].<ref name="Pingree"/> Govardhana and Divakara were themselves able mathematicians.<ref name="Bag"/><br />
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==Schools of mathematics==<br />
Historians of mathematics have identified several schools of mathematics that flourished in different parts of [[India]] during the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries [[BCE|CE]]. It has also been noted that most of the mathematical activities during this period were concentrated in these schools.<ref name="Bag"/> The schools were at places identified by the following names:<br />
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* Jambusagaranagara<br />
* [[Dadhigrama]] ([[Vidarbha]])<br />
* [[Nandigrama]]<br />
* Parthapura ([[Maharashtra]])<br />
* [[Golagrama]] ([[Maharashtra]])<br />
* [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics|Kerala]]<br />
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