Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.71

c6.71

Al-Bīrūnī, in his India (14), lists the names of seven authors of *saṃhitās*: Māṇḍavya,⁵⁶ Parāśara, Garga, Brahman,⁵⁷ Balabhadra, Divyatattva,⁵⁸ and Varāhamihira. Of these authors, Balabhadra and Divyatattva are not known from Sanskrit sources to have composed *saṃhitās*, though there is an Adbhutataraṅgiṇī on omens by a Balabhadra.⁵⁹