Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.139

c7.139

Before 1729 when the earliest dated manuscript was copied Jaimini¹⁰⁶ (or rather someone using the sage’s name) composed the Upadeśasūtra,¹⁰⁷ a collection of 1031 sūtras (there is also a set of verse kārikās that summarize them) divided into four adhyāyas, each of which has four pādas. The only other jātaka work composed in sūtras seems to be the Jātakatattva¹⁰⁸ completed by Uḍumbara Mahādeva Pāṭhaka¹⁰⁹ at Ratnapura (Ratlam, Madhya Pradeśa) in 1872. The earliest manuscript of the Upadeśasūtra already contains the commentary of Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī,¹¹⁰ who calls himself a Drāviḍācārya; this commentary is also preserved in a manuscript dated 1721. Tentatively, then, one might surmise that the Upadeśasūtras were composed in South India in, perhaps, the seventeenth century. Other commentaries were written by Nīlakaṇṭha Regmi¹¹¹ in 1754 at Bhaṭgaon, Nepāla (Subodhini); by Ākumalla Nṛsiṃha¹¹² in South India (Arthaprakāśikā); by Nṛsiṃha Kheḍakara,¹¹³ probably in Mysore; by Parameśvara Yogīndra,¹¹⁴ apparently in Tamilnadu (Jyotiṣānanda); by Premanidhi¹¹⁵ (Kāśikā); by Malayavarman,¹¹⁶ the ruler of Tākumaparvata (Kāśikā); by Lakṣmaṇa in South India (Jyotiḥpradīpikā); and by Veṅkaṭeśa in South India (Bhāvakaumudī).