Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.179

v2.c10.179

*KAKKA* (*fl. ca.* 800). Kakka, whose ancestors were in ascending order: Bhillāditya, Jhoṭa, Śiluka, Canduka, Yaśovardhana, Tāta, Nāgabhaṭa (married Jajjikādevī), Narabhaṭa Pellāpelli, Rajjila, and the Brāhmaṇa Haricandra Rohilladdhyaṅka and his Kṣatriya wife Bhadrā, belonged to the Pratīhāravamśa which ruled at Māṇḍavyapura (Mandor, near Jodhpur) from the middle of the sixth century on. His renown as a scholar of jyotiḥśāstra is celebrated in the Jodhpur Inscription of his son Bāuka of Saṃ. 894 (?) = A.D. 837 (edited R. C. Majumdar [1925/26]) in verses 23–24: