Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c6.81

c6.81

In about 1160 Durlabharāja,⁶⁴ a scion of the Prāgvāṭa family of Gujarāt who was made a *mahattara* by the Caulukya Kumārapāla (ca. 1143–1152), began a *Sāmudrikatilaka*⁶⁵ that was finished by his son, Jagaddeva.⁶⁶ This is the earliest complete Sanskrit text on physiognomy and palmistry that we possess, though we have seen that the subject was earlier treated in the Śārdūlakarṇavadāna (pp. 129–132, 147–154, 172–175, and 187–191), the GS (18 and 48), the BS (50, 51, 67, and 69), and other texts. Durlabharāja adds (in 1, 9) to the authors whose names we have already encountered Lakṣaka and Sumanta, of whom nothing further is known, and the famous Paramāra Bhojarāja of Dhārā, whose work on sāmudrika has not survived.