Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c11.13

c11.13

In a village in the district (*deśa*) of Pārthapura named Golagrāma another family of the Bhāradvājagotra began its career in the middle of the fifteenth century (see Table 11); it is linked to the family we have just discussed by the fact that one of Vireśvara’s works is a commentary on one of Divākara’s astrological treatises. However, its history is quite different; for in the early sixteenth century that Divākara’s great-grandfather, also named Divākara, went to Nandigrāma to study with the famous Gaṇeśa (see Table 12). From Gujarāt he evidently travelled to Kāśī, where his descendents became one of the two prominent families of *jyotiṣīs* in the seventeenth century. Divākara presumably brought with him copies of his *guru*’s works and those of his *guru*’s father, Keśava; and we find that a considerable portion of the scholarly energy of the family was devoted to explicating the various treatises of Keśava and Gaṇeśa. However, following the local preference in Kāśī, they also expounded the Saurapakṣa; and they were receptive to some elements of Islamic astronomy.