Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.78

c7.78

There circulates, primarily in South India, an extensive work on *jātaka* entitled Horāsāra,⁵⁹ which is sometimes attributed to Varāhamihira’s son, Pṛthuyaśas. However, the author has borrowed verses from Kalyāṇavarman’s Sārāvalī⁶⁰ and so must have written after ca. 850; and the H is cited by Viṣṇuśarman⁶¹ (fl. ca. 1370), and so must have been written before ca. 1350. The H is also closely related (as is the S) to the southern Candrābharaṇahorā of Yavana,⁶² but unfortunately the date of that work is not yet precisely known. The H consists of thirty-two *adhyāyas* covering basically the material in the BJ with the addition of one chapter (31) on *uḍudaśā*, which computes the planetary *daśās* from the *nakṣatras*, and one on omens (32). On *uḍudaśā* there also exists a popular Uḍudāyapradīpa⁶³ based on Parāśara⁶⁴ (cf. BPH *pūrva* 35, 71–74).