Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.120

c6.120

But a more important author on omens had flourished a century and a half earlier. The Jaina scholar Meghavijaya⁹⁷ wrote a Varṣaprabodha⁹⁸ similar to the Meghamālās of Garga and Śiva in 1675 and a Hasta-sañjīvana⁹⁹ on palmistry in 1680; in this same year he completed a commentary on the latter work. There are, of course, numerous other anonymous works on omens or works attributed to authors of whom nothing is known extant in Sanskrit and vernacular manuscripts. Nothing further can be said of them in the absence of editions and of critical historical studies.