Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.107

Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.107

Language: English

c4.s2.107

Kamalākara,¹⁰³ who wrote the Sauravāsanā on the SS and completed the Siddhāntatattvaviveka¹⁰⁴ in 1658, while accepting the Saurapakṣa’s planetary parameters, was far more receptive to Muslim astronomy as represented by Ulugh Beg and the School of Samarqand.¹⁰⁵ He was, in particular, prone to agree with Muslim (Ptolemaic) notions of the structure of the planetary system, and he presents what is, apparently, the only Sanskrit treatise on geometrical optics (STV 1, 5).

Previous: c4.s2.106
Next: c4.s2.108
Up: c4.s2

Linked texts (1)

Siddhāntatattvaviveka — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1633, Sanskrit