[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) › c7.139 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.139 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.139 - **Language:** English ### [c7.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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). - [Previous: c7.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.138) - [Next: c7.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.140) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7) ## Linked texts (1) - [Upadeśasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.jaimini.upadesasutra) — Jaimini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.139) · Pramāṇa