Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.99

c7.99

verses from the BJ⁷² and even from the H.⁷³ In general, his astrology seems more developed than that of Śrīpati; but a more exhaustive search of the relevant texts is necessary before one can establish a firm terminus post quem for the JPJ; the terminus ante, ca. 1450, is provided by the quotations in Śivarāja’s Jyotirnibandha. At some time after Vaidyanātha, whose work he uses,⁷⁴ Mantreśvara⁷⁵ wrote a Phaladīpikā⁷⁶ at Śrīśālivaṭi (Tinnevelly). In twenty-eight adhyāyas he covers the main topics of jātaka; adhyāya 24 describes the aṣṭakavarga of Horāsāra 17.