Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.132

c7.132

At Jambūsara in Gujarāt Yājñikanātha composed the Jātakacandrikā,¹⁰⁰ which deals with technical aspects of jātaka in six prabodhas. By this time Kāśīnātha¹⁰¹ had written his popular Lagnacandrikā;¹⁰² for the oldest dated manuscript was copied in 1670. If, however, this Kāśīnātha is identical with the author of the Praśnapradīpa and the Śīghrabodha, as seems likely, he flourished before 1550. A rather traditional treatise on jātaka is the Śambhuhorāprakāśa¹⁰³ composed by Puñjarāja¹⁰⁴ in about 1700 for Śambhudāsa (born 1662), the ruler of Nandidvārapura (Nander, Mahārāṣṭra ?). Several decades later Putumana Somayājin, the author of the Karaṇapaddhati, wrote the Jātakādeśamārga¹⁰⁵ in Kerala.