Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.11

c8.11

Contemporaneously with Śrīpati, Bhojarāja, the famous Paramāra ruler of Dhārā, wrote (or had written) the Rājamārtaṇḍa.⁷ This text, naturally uninfluenced by the arrangement of Śrīpati's, deals, among other topics, with the names and qualities of the planets, nakṣatras, and zodiacal signs; with many saṃskāras in the order of their normal occurrences in life from conception till death; with military astrology; with building, installing images, digging wells, agriculture, planting trees, archery, mounting elephants, and a variety of other topics. Unfortunately, the printed edition includes material that does not belong to the original; for instance, it cites (p. 116) the opinion of the Kālamādhavīya, which was written by Mādhava in the late fourteenth century. A critical edition is a necessity before this fascinating collection of material on ordinary life in medieval India can be properly exploited.