Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.1718

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He composed the *Yuktibhāṣā* in Malayālam as an exposition of the *Tantrasaṅgraha* (1500) of his fellow-pupil, Nīlakaṇṭha (b. ca. 14 June 1444). He was a Nampūri Brāhmaṇa from the Paraññoṭṭu illam in Ālattūr, Kerala, according to an old granthavari at Baroda: *pūrvoktadāmodarasya śiṣyaḥ jyeṣṭhadevaḥ/ iddehaṃ paraññoṭṭu nampūriyākunnu/ yuktibhāṣā-granthatte uṇṭākkiyatum iddeham tanne*. See K. V. Sarma [1958a] and K. R. Raja [1963] 156–158.