[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) › c6.59 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.59 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.59 - **Language:** English ### [c6.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6.59) Probably not far in time from Varāhamihira an unnamed Jaina composed an immense work in Prakrit on omens entitled Aṅgavijjā,⁴⁷ which classifies every perceptible object in the world as a ominous entity. It remains an inadequately explored treasure of the material aspects of Indian culture. Another Jaina, claiming to be Bhadrabāhu,⁴⁸ the last śrutakevalin, composed on mainly celestial omens a Bhadrabāhusaṃhitā or Nimitta⁴⁹ in the period between the BS, on which much of the work is based,⁵⁰ and Bhaṭṭotpala, who cites BBS 15, 92–95, on BS 9, 37. The subjects not directly corresponding to Varāhamihira's that Bhadrabāhu takes up are lightning (BBS 5; cf. Pariśiṣṭa LIX); clouds (BBS 6 and 8; cf. second GS 14); military expeditions (BSS 13; cf. GS 32); planetary omens (BBS 25); and oneiromancy (BBS 26; cf. VYJ 66). A third Jaina text (though some manuscripts make it Śaiva) written in this period is by Garga,⁵¹ who is usually identified with the guru named by Siddharṣi in 905; this is variously titled Pāśakevali,⁵² Marutajñānapraśna, etc. It is an elaborate treatise on divination by means of dice, giving the interpretation of each of the combinations of three of the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, in all possible orders. - [Previous: c6.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6.58) - [Next: c6.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6.60) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6) ## Linked texts (3) - [Bṛhatsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.rsi.brhatsamhita.9.37) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit - [Aṃgavijjā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.painna.angavijja) — Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit - [Bhadrabāhusaṃhitā (Bhadrabāhu)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.rsi.bhadrabahusamhita) — Bhadrabāhu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c6.59) · Pramāṇa