Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.103

c4.s2.103

His contemporaries in Kāśī, however, did not ignore Islamic astronomy, though some were more receptive than others. The two *siddhāntas* written there in the middle of the century follow the Saurapakṣa with some influence from Bhāskara’s SŚB. Munīśvara,⁹⁸ who had earlier composed the gigantic Marīci on the SŚB, completed his Siddhāntasārvabhauma⁹⁹ in 1646. While willingly accepting some Islamic trigonometry and rather indifferently referring to certain doctrines of the Pārasikas (Persians), Munīśvara vigorously attacks the theory of precession,¹⁰⁰ thereby beginning a heated controversy carried on by Raṅganātha, the brother of his rival, Kamalākara, in his Lohalakhaṇḍana, to which Munīśvara’s cousin, Gadādhara,¹⁰¹ replied in his Lohagolasamarthana.¹⁰² Munīśvara wrote his own commentary, the Āśayaprakāśinī, on the SSBM.