Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.65

c7.65

At some time before Śrīpati (fl. 1039–1056) wrote his Jātakakarmapaddhati⁴⁸ in Rohiṇikhaṇḍa, Śridhara had written on *jātaka* (see JKP 5, 36). There does exist in several manuscripts, some of which are associated with Mysore (the earliest dated example was copied in 1589), a Jātakapaddhati of Śridhara; and a Jaina priest named Śridhara from Narigunda in the Karṇāṭaka wrote, in Kannaḍa, a Jātakatilaka⁴⁹ in 1049 under the Western Cālukya Someśvara I (1042–1068). What relation the two Śridharas might have to each other or to the astrologer cited by Śrīpati remains unclear. Śrīpati’s own Jātakapaddhati or Jātakakarmapaddhati teaches in eight *adhyāyas* how to calculate the astrological places, and how to compute the amount of aspects, the strengths of the planets, the length of life, the *daśās* and *antardaśās*, and the *aṣṭakavarga*; it is closely related to the *pūrvakhaṇḍa* of the BPH. The JKP was immensely influential as is indicated by the numerous imitations of it and commentaries on it; the latter were composed by Sūryadeva at Gaṅgāpura in about 1250 (Jātakālaṅkāra); by Parameśvara at Aśvatthagrāma in about 1425 (Bālaprabodhini); by Acyuta in about 1525 (Bhāvārthamañjarī); by Sūryadāsa at Pārthapura in about 1550 (Bodhasudhākara); by Raghunātha (the unique manuscript was copied in 1612); by Sumatiharṣa Gaṇi, presumably at Khairābād, in 1616 (Subodhā); by Kṛṣṇa in about 1625; by Dullaha⁵⁰ in 1776; and by Kāmābhaṭṭa⁵¹ (Sampradāyapariśuddhi); by a Brāhmaṇa from Parakroḍa in Kerala;⁵² by Bhāveśa;⁵³ by Bhāskara;⁵⁴ by Bhūdhara;⁵⁵ by Mādhava⁵⁶ (Janabodhinī); and by Śivadāsa.