Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.101

c6.101

Treatments of omens in the thirteenth century were rare except among the Jainas of Gujarāt and Rājasthān. There are scattered references in the Trailokyaprakāśa written by Hemaprabha Sūri probably in 1248, a work which will be discussed more fully below. And in 1281 Māṇikya Sūri⁸⁰ composed a Śakunasāroddhāra. A Hindu, Lāvaṇyaśarman, was the author of a Śakunapradīpa;⁸¹ he himself copied a manuscript of it at Vijāpura in 1344.⁸² In some manuscripts of the gigantic Jyotirnibandha composed by Śivarāja between ca. 1475 and 1500 there is inserted a cārādhyāya;⁸³ this is based almost entirely on Varāhamihira’s BS (3–13, 17–18, and 20) with a few quotations from the saṃhitās of Kāśyapa, Nārada, and Vasiṣṭha.