Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.106

c6.106

Slightly before Śivarāja, in about 1450, Rāmacandra wrote at Naimiṣa in Uttarapradeśa a Samarasāra⁸⁴ similar in intent and contents to Narapati’s NJ. There are commentaries composed by Rāmacandra himself together with his brother, Bharata⁸⁵ (Saralā), by Dāmodara⁸⁶ (Saṅketamañjarī), and by Dīkṣita Sāṃvatsara.⁸⁷ Other works on svaraśāstra include the Yuddhajayotsava of Gaṅgārāma⁸⁸ and the Pavanavijaya or Svarodaya attributed to Śiva. Other cakras are used in interpreting nativities by Prajāpatidāsa,⁸⁹ who wrote his Pañcasvarānirṇaya or Granthasaṅgraha⁹⁰ before 1625 (the earliest manuscript was copied in 1631). There are commentaries by Prajāpatidāsa himself as well as by Appaya Dīkṣita⁹¹ and Gauḍa Bhaṭṭācārya.⁹² To Mahādeva⁹³ is ascribed a Pañcapakṣiśakuna⁹⁴ employing the five European vowels for divination; the oldest dated manuscript containing this work was copied in 1750. A related text is the Tattvārthacintāmaṇi⁹⁵ composed together with a vṛtti by Bālakṛṣṇa Vedavṛkṣa⁹⁶ at Kāśī in the 1820's.