[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.s2.107 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.107 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.107 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s2.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.106) - [Next: c4.s2.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.108) - [Up: c4.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Siddhāntatattvaviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.later.siddhantatattvaviveka) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa 1633, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.s2.107) · Pramāṇa