Original sentence: Critics have questioned whether this subject deserves the name Vedic or indeed mathematics.They have also been worried that it deflects attention from genuine achievements of ancient and modern Indian mathematics and mathematicians, and that its promotion by Hindu nationalists may damage mathematics education in India.They point to the lack of evidence of any sutras from the Vedic period consistent with the system, the inconsistency between the topics addressed by the system (such as decimal fractions) and the known mathematics of early India, the substantial extrapolations from a few words of a sutra to complex arithmetic, and the restriction of applications to convenient cases.Vedic mathematics is a system of mental calculation developed by Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji which he claimed he had based on a lost appendix of Atharvaveda, an ancient text of the Indian teachings called Veda
Edited sentence: Vedic mathematics is a system of mental calculation developed by Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji which he had based on a lost appendix of Atharvaveda, an ancient text of the Indian teachings called Veda