[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) › c8.32 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.32 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.32 - **Language:** English ### [c8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.32) The most important authority on muhūrta in the fourteenth century, however, was Vidyāmādhava, who wrote his Muhūrtadarśana or Vidyāmādhavīya²² in the Vijayanagara Empire in about 1360. Its fifteen adhyāyas are concerned with terminology and definitions (1; saṃjñā); faults (2; doṣa), exceptions (3; apavāda), and good qualities (4; guṇa) of muhūrtas; strengths and weaknesses (5; balābala); the saṃskāras (6–9); agriculture (10; kṛṣibījavāpa); installation of images of the gods (11; devapratiṣṭhā); military expeditions (12; yātrā); various other activities (13); on the nakṣatras (14); and on gocara (15). There is an extremely valuable ṭīkā on the VM, the Muhūrtadīpikā, written by Vidyāmādhava’s son, Viṣṇuśarman, in about 1365; as has been noted several times above, this provides a rich store of citations from the antecedent literature on several branches of jyotiḥśāstra. - [Previous: c8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.31) - [Next: c8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.33) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Vidyāmādhavīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.muhurta.vidyamadhaviya) — Vidyāmādhava, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.32) · Pramāṇa