Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c7.s1.4

c7.s1.4

The earliest author on tājika in Sanskrit was Samarasiṃha of the Prāgvāṭakula, who wrote his Gaṇakabhūṣaṇa or Tājikatantrasāra or Karmaprakāśikā¹²² in Gujarāt in 1274; his great-great-grandfather, Caṇḍasiṃha, had been a saciva of the Caulukya Mūlarāja II (ca. 1177–1179). Samarasiṃha names as his source the work of Khindika,¹²³ a name derived from the Arabic al-Hindī. There is a commentary, the Daivajñasantoṣiṇī or Karmaprakāśikāvṛtti, composed by Nārāyaṇa Sāmudrika¹²⁴ in about 1725.