Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s3.22

c4.s3.22

In the early eleventh century the court of Bhojarāja,¹²⁸ the Paramāra Mahārāja of Dhārā, produced numerous works of Sanskrit literature. Among them is a karaṇa of the Brāhmapakṣa, containing (as does the more or less contemporary SŚŚ) the bījas that were utilized by most of the succeeding adherents of this pakṣa. The Rājamṛgāṅka, whose epoch is 21 February 1042, is not preserved for us in its original form, as most of the verses quoted from it by, for example, Āmarāja in his Vāsanābhāṣya on the Kh, are not found in the manuscripts.¹²⁹ A version by one Rāma¹³⁰ contains many verses in common with two manuscripts at Baroda,¹³¹ though each of the three versions also contains a number of verses not in the other two. Moreover, all three versions comprise only the first two adhikāras: madhyamagrahānayana and spaṣṭīkaraṇa. The RM is sometimes accompanied by tables (sāraṇī), but these have yet to be investigated.