History of Science in South Asia A journal for the history of all forms of scientifc thought and action, ancient and modern, in all regions of South Asia Mean and True Positions of Planets as Described in Gaṇitagannaḍi – A Karaṇa Text on Siddhāntic Astronomy in Kannaḍa B. S. Shylaja and Seetharam Javagal Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru, and Independent MLA style citation form: B. S. Shylaja and Seetharam Javagal. “Mean and True Positions of Planets as De- scribed in Gaṇitagannaḍi – A Karaṇa Text on Siddhāntic Astronomy in Kannaḍa.” History of Science in South Asia, 9 (2021): 232–272. DOI: 10.18732/hssa62. Online version available at: http://hssa-journal.org