Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c11.14

c11.14

The rival family in Kāśī (see Table 13) in the seventeenth century originated at Dadhigrāma on the Payoṣṇī to the northwest of Pārthapura; for Munīśvara places it near Gaṅgābhaiśilanagara near the Godāvarī (perhaps Gangapur in the Aurangabad District), in the district (*samadeśa*) of Elavapura (Ellora). The Payoṣṇī on whose bank Dadhigrāma lies, then, must be the Pūrṇa that eventually flows into the Godāvarī some thirty miles to the east of Pārthapura, though Dadhigrāma would have been near the headwaters, just south of Bhāskara’s Sahyādri range. This family traces its history back to the middle of the fifteenth century also, and moved to Kāśī in the late sixteenth century. Its interests were divided between Bhāskara’s works, the Saurapakṣa, and Gaṇeśa’s works, while some of its members vehemently attacked members of the Golagrāma family for their acceptance of Islamic astronomical theories. Another family (see Table 14) that flourished in the same area came originally from an unidentified place called Sāsamaṇūra, but had settled in Ṭāpara to the north of Devagiri in the late sixteenth century.