Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.4030

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The son of Śambhunātha Jhā, a Maithilī Brāhmaṇa residing in Pāṭaliputra, Nīlāmbara was born on 11 śuklapakṣa of Āṣāḍha in Śaka 1745 = 18 July 1823 as the younger brother of Jīvanātha Jhā (fl. ca. 1846/1900) and studied jyotiṣśāstra under Lajjāśaṅkara (b. 1804). Nīlāmbara was astrologer at the court of Śivadāna, the Mahārāja of Alavara, for whom he translated into Sanskrit and enlarged an English textbook on plane and spherical trigonometry in Kāśī on 11 śuklapakṣa of Vaiśākha in Śaka 1805 = 16 May 1883. See S. Dvivedin [1892] 129-131 and S. B. Dikshit [1896] 301. His works include:

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