An astrolabe from the Mughal era exhibited at the National Museum in New Delhi, India. Yantrarāja is the Sanskrit name for the ancient astronomical instrument called astrolabe. It is also the title of a Sanskrit treatise on the construction and working of the astrolabe composed by a Jain astronomer Mahendra Sūri in around 1370 CE.[1]
^ Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (1999). "Yantraraja: The Astrolabe in Sanskrit" (PDF) . Indian Journal of History of Science . 34 (2): 145–158. Retrieved 21 December 2023 .
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