Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.s1.21

c7.s1.21

Towards the end of the sixteenth century the high-ranking Mughal official ‘Abd al-Raḥīm, who was born at Lahore in 1556 (his horoscope is given in Kṛṣṇa’s ṭīkā on Śrīpati’s JKP) as the son of Bairam Khān and who was given the title Khān-i Khānān (he is known as Nabbāba Khānakhanān¹³⁶ in Sanskrit), wrote a Kheṭakautuka¹³⁷ on tājika in 124 verses. At about the same time Gaṇeśa,¹³⁸ the son of Dhuṇḍhirāja who wrote the Jātakābharaṇa at Pārthapura in about 1525, composed a lengthy Tājikabhūṣaṇa¹³⁹ in fourteen adhyāyas; and Śaṅkara wrote a Tājikacandrikā or Samāphala at Nādur, in which he mentions the sixty-year cycle from 1567 to 1627 and of which the oldest dated manuscript was copied in 1607.