Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v1.c7.146

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ANANTADEVA (*fl. ca.* 1222) The elder son of Gaṇapati of the Śāṇḍilyagotra, the son of Śrīpati, the younger brother of Bhāskara (b. 1114), Anantadeva was an astrologer at the court of Siṃhaṇa, the Yādava ruler of Devagiri beginning in 1209/10. In an inscription recording his establishment of a temple to Dvārajā at Bahal in Khāndeś on 1 Caitra Śaka 1144 (= 14 March 1222) he mentions his commentaries on the *Chandaścityuttarādhyāya*, the twentieth chapter of the *Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta* of Brahmagupta (*fl. ca.* 628/65), and on the *Bṛhajjātaka* of Varāhamihira (*fl. ca.* 550). See Kielhorn [1894/95] and S. B. Dikshit [1896] 254.