Kaṇakkatikāram

"It is significant that the mathematical methods found in these delve into the material life of the people and approach the dimensions of daily labor enumeratively.

Regarding the date of composition of the work, the researchers observe thus:[3] "the evidence in this verse and the linguistic evidence detailed above may lead to the conjecture that the Malayalam Kaṇakkatikāram originated around the fifteenth century, somewhere in the Palakkad region, perhaps in the context of merchants that connected the Malabar Coast with Tamil Nadu via the Pallakad Gap.

The distribution and variety of the manuscripts and the geographical spread of the educational and commercial networks that carried them do not compel us to assume a unified source or origin.

Instead, we may surmise that different verses came from different times and places, and were constantly recombined, re-edited and renewed by local teachers and practitioners who created new Kaṇakkatikāram compilations."

A Malayalam adaptation of work with some additional mathematical material and explanations, authored by Mavanan Mappila Seyd Muhammed Asan, was printed and published by CMS Press Kottayam in 1863.