Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.781

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KṚṢṆA (fl. ca. 1600/1625) The son of Goji and Ballāla, the son of Trimalla, the son of Rāma (who was patronized by the king of Vidarbha), the son of Cintāmaṇi of the Devarātagotra, an inhabitant of Dadhigrāma on the Payoṣṇī, Kṛṣṇa belonged to a prominent family of jyautiṣas which moved from Vidarbha to Benares in the sixteenth century. He studied under Viṣṇu (fl. ca. 1575), who was the pupil of Nṛsiṃha (b. 1548), the nephew of Gaṇeśa (b. 1507) of Nandigrāma, and was patronized by Jahāngīr (1605–1627) according to his younger brother Raṅganātha (fl. 1602). See S. Dvivedin [1892] 69–71; S. B. Dikshit [1896] 283–285; and M. M. Patkar [1938b] 169. His works are: