[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.s1.21 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.s1.21 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.s1.21 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.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. - [Previous: c7.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.s1.20) - [Next: c7.s1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.s1.22) - [Up: c7.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.s1) ## Linked texts (2) - [Jātakābharaṇa (Rāmacandra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.jatakabharana-ramacandra) — Rāmacandra 1722, Sanskrit - [Kheṭakautuka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.tajika.khetakautuka) — Khānakhānā 1602, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c7.s1.21) · Pramāṇa