[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981) › c4.s2.103 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.103 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.103 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s2.103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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. - [Previous: c4.s2.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.102) - [Next: c4.s2.104](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.104) - [Up: c4.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.103) · Pramāṇa