Title: GRAHAGANITA
Description: This is a Kannada Exposition of the most famous Indian Astronomical text in Sanskrit, "GRAHALAAGHAVAM" of the renowned
Maharashtrian astronomer, Ganesha Daivajna. The epoch of the text is 1520 CE, March 19 (Julian). The text is extremely popular throught India among compilers of the traditional "Pachangas" (astronomical almanacs). The cause for the populaity lies in Ganesha Daivajna's simplifying the astronomical procedures for Eclipses, Planetary positions etc by totally dispensing with the trigonomeytric ratios, "sine" and "cosine" by replacing with very good approximate algebraic expressions. The parameters were updated by the astronomer based on his actual contemporary observations.