Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.1738

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Born at Laharpur in Oudh, Ṭoḍaramalla began his career as a clerk in the Mughal bureaucracy under Akbar (1556/1605). He served in the negotiations with Khān Zamān of Jaunpur in 1565, took part in the siege of Chitor in 1567/1568, investigated the defences of Surat in 1572, made the revenue settlement of Gujarat in 1574 and entered the central government's finance department, took part as a general in Akbar's campaigns in Bengal in 1574/1575, served as governor of Gujarat in 1576/1577, was in charge of the Bengal mint in 1577, became wazīr in 1577/1578, suppressed the rebellion in Bengal in 1580, and was appointed dīwān in 1582/1583. He died in November of 1589. Between *ca.* 1572 and 1582 Nīlakaṇṭha (*fl.* 1569/1587) published for him the jyotiṣa sections of a vast encyclopedia entitled *Toḍarānanda*; this is often ascribed to Toḍaramalla (or Toḍaravarman) in the manuscripts. See P. V. Kane [1930/62] vol. 1, pp. 421–423, and *Toḍarānanda*, vol. 1, edited by P. L. Vaidya, *Gaṅgā OS* 5, Bikaner 1948.