A History of Sanskrit Literature c35.s9.1

c35.s9.1

Little need be said of later exponents of this dubious science. Pṛthuyaças, son of Varāhamihira, wrote a *Horāṣaṭpañcāçikā*,¹ on nativities, on which Bhaṭṭotpala commented, as he did on all Varāhamihira’s works, the comment on the *Bṛhaj Jātaka* being dated in 966; he himself wrote a *Horāçāstra* in seventy-five verses. Bhaṭṭotpala is historically interesting for the citations he makes from lost works. The *Vidyāmādhavīya* (before 1350) claims to put in correct language as opposed to barbarisms (*apaçabda*) the precepts of Vasiṣṭha, Bṛhaspati, Gārgya, and others.