Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.483

v2.c10.483

An unknown author who wrote a Jyotirvidābharaṇa, probably in ca. 1242 (see S. B. Dikshit [1896] 476), under the guise of the great poet Kālidāsa (fl. ca. 400; for this Kālidāsa's astronomical knowledge see H. Jacobi [A2. 1873] and [A2. 1876]; H. A. Shah [A2. 1924]; P. P. Sarma [A2. 1934]; C. K. Raja [1942]; P. C. Sengupta [1945]; B. S. Upadhyaya [A2. 1947] 286–290; N. Sen [1952]; P. C. Sengupta [1952] and K. A. S. Iyer [A2. 1967]). The author claims to have been one of the 9 jewels at the court of Vikramāditya of Ujjayinī, the traditional founder of the era of -57; see 22, 8–10: