Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c11.9

c11.9

Another case that it is instructive to examine is that of the family which produced the great Bhāskara in the twelfth century (see Table 8⁵) and which lived in the Sahyādri range, though we possess no manuscripts from their family library. That library presumably was part of the endowment of the maṭha established by Soīdeva under the Yādava Siṅhaṇa at Pāṭṇā in Khandesh in 1207 for the study of the works of Bhāskara; Bhāskara’s grandson, Caṅgadeva, was one of Siṅhaṇa’s court astrologers, as was also Bhāskara’s nephew’s son, Anantadeva. It is regrettable, then, that we no longer have either of Anantadeva’s works or his great grandfather, Maheśvara’s, Karaṇasekhara. However, we do have one treatise that may well have been written by a student of the maṭha; this is the Laghukhecarasiddhi composed by Śrīdhara in 1227, a rare work of which one of the three available manuscripts was copied by Nīlakaṇṭha of the Girinārāyaṇajñāti at Jirṇadurga in 1555.