[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.s1.9 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.s1.9 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.s1.9 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1.9) After the tenth century, new literature on military astrology (aside from adhyāyas in muhūrta texts) seems to have followed the models of the Narapatijayacaryā and the Samarasāra rather than Varāhamihira; such seems to be the case, for example, with the Yuddhajayotsava of Gaṅgārāma,⁵⁷ and it is also to a large extent true of Kumāra Gaṇaka,⁵⁸ who wrote his Raṇadīpikā⁵⁹ in Kerala. As yet little is known of the Rājavijaya of Raṇahastin save that it was composed for a king named Mandana, the son of Hammīra, the son of Simhanadeva, and that the oldest dated manuscript was copied in 1600. Clearly Mandana is the Haihaya (Kalacuri) ruler of Ratnapura, Madanabrahman, the son of Ḍamghīra (?), the son of Siṃhaṇa, who is mentioned in the first Kosgain (Kosaṅga) Stone Inscription of his (Madanabrahman’s) great-grandson Vāharendra,⁶⁰ who ruled from about 1480 till about 1515. Raṇahastin, therefore, flourished at Ratanpur north of Bilāspur in Madhya Pradeśa in about 1400. - [Previous: c8.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1.8) - [Next: c8.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1.10) - [Up: c8.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1) ## Linked texts (3) - [Narapatijayacaryā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.yatra.narapatijayacarya) — Narapati, Sanskrit - [Raṇadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.yatra.ranadipika) — Kumāra Gaṇaka 1625, Sanskrit - [Kosgain stone inscription (No. I) of Vāhara](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.central.kalacuri.kosgain-stone-inscription-no-i-of-vahara) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c8.s1.9) · Pramāṇa