[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) › c7.78 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.78 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.78 - **Language:** English ### [c7.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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). - [Previous: c7.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.77) - [Next: c7.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.79) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7) ## Linked texts (3) - [Bṛhatparāśarahorāśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhatparasara) — Parāśara, Sanskrit - [Sārāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.saravali) — Kalyāṇavarman, Sanskrit - [Bṛhajjātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.78) · Pramāṇa