Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.1089

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Cintāmaṇi was born at Madras on 2 śuklapakṣa of Caitra in Śaka 1750 = 17 March 1828. At the age of 17 he became First Assistant at the Madras Observatory, where he cataloged stars from 1867 till 1878; he died on 5 February 1880. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1872. Among his writings are a *Jyotiṣacintāmaṇi* in Tamil with a Sanskrit translation, published at Madras in 1874, and a *Śukragrastasūryoparāga*, published at Poona in 1874 (IO 2346). See S. B. Dikshit [1896] 304–305.