Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c10.24

c10.24

At about the same time Śuka composed a Jyotiṣasāra¹⁶ that is primarily on muhūrta, but includes a substantial amount of jātaka and praśna material. The earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1647. It was probably in the eighteenth century that someone claiming to be the great poet, Kālidāsa,¹⁷ wrote an Uttarakālāmṛta¹⁸ in South India as a supplement to Veṅkaṭa Yajvan’s popular Kālāmṛta. Ps.-Kālidāsa’s work concerns *jātaka* and *muhūrta*.