Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.2549

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DURGĀŚAṄKARA PĀṬHAKA (fl. ca. 1825/1850) An Audīcya Brāhmaṇa, the son and pupil of Śivalāla Pāṭhaka, the brother of Lakṣmīpati, and a resident of Kāśī, Durgāśaṅkara cast a horoscope at the birth of Navanihāla Siṃha (1821/1840), for which he received a reward from Khaḍgasimha (fl. 1839/40), the successor to Raṇajit Siṃha (fl. 1799/1839) of Lāhora, and was associated with Lancelot Wilkinson (fl. 1834/1837), the agent of Sihora, to whom he wrote on Thursday 2 śuklapakṣa of Śrāvaṇa in Saṃ. 1894 = 3 August 1837. He was later the astrologer of Viśvanātha, the Mahārāja of Rīvāṃ. His pupils included Lajjāśaṅkara Śarman and Hīrānanda Caturveda. See S. Dvivedin [1892] 119-120. He wrote a *Sarvasiddhāntatattvacūḍāmaṇi*. Manuscript: