[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) › c8.21 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.21 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.21 - **Language:** English ### [c8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.21) Perhaps at about the same time (some scholars claim that the date is about 1242, though the earliest dated manuscript was not copied till 1658), someone who claims to be Kālidāsa¹⁴ and to have written at the court of Vikramāditya in 34 B.C. composed a Jyotirvidābharaṇa¹⁵ on muhūrta with some omen material interspersed. Bhāvaratna¹⁶ wrote his commentary, the Sukhabodhikā, at Pattana in 1711. - [Previous: c8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.20) - [Next: c8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.22) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jyotirvidābharaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.muhurta.jyotihsara.jyotirvidabharana) — Kālidāsa 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.21) · Pramāṇa