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The son of Rāmadhana Miśra, a Gauḍa Brāhmaṇa, Devakṛṣṇa studied jyotiṣa at the Kāśika Rājakīya Pāṭhaśālā under Lajjāśaṅkara. He taught jyotiṣa at Jambūnagara in Kāśmīra for nine years beginning in Śaka 1781 = A.D. 1859 at the request of Raṇavīra Siṃha, the Mahārāja of Kāśmīra from 1857. In 1868 he succeeded Nandarāma Śarman at the Kāśika Rā-jakīya Pāṭhaśālā. He died at Vārāṇasī in Śaka 1811 = A.D. 1889. Among his pupils was Sudhākara Dvivedin (fl. 1892/1907). See S. Dvivedin [1892] 125–126.