Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c10.10

c10.10

The next work that ought to be placed in this category combines *jātaka* with *muhūrta*; it is Śrīnivāsa's Śuddhidīpikā.⁶ His date is a matter of great uncertainty, but he probably flourished in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. The earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1607; but a commentary, the Arthakaumudī, had been penned by Govindānanda Kavikaṅkaṇa⁷ nearly a century before. The Śuddhidīpikā was popular primarily in Bengal and Mithilā, so that this Śrīnivāsa probably lived in that area of India.