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Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.s2: Vivāha

Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c8.s2

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Vivāha

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Varāhamihira incorporated into his BS (102) a chapter on the astrology of marriage entitled vivāhapaṭala, the “marriage chest;” this was attributed to Vindhyavāsin by his commentator, Bhaṭṭotpala. But he also wrote a separate and more extensive treatise on the astrology of marriage, also entitled Vivāhapaṭala.⁶¹ A commentary on this was written by the faithful Bhaṭṭotpala at

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⁶¹ I have used manuscript 9316 of the Oriental Institute in Baroda, which also contains Bhaṭṭotpala’s commentary.

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(1878), 167—184, reprinted in his Verspreide Geschriften, vol. 1, ’s-Gravenhage 1913, pp. 97—168; complete edition by JAGDISH LAL, Lahore 1944.

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Kāśmīra in about 970. Thereafter, when muhūrta treatises became popular, they all included a section on vivāha—sometimes little else; and, of course, most works on jātaka also included discussions of this topic. Thus, Viṣṇuśarman, in commenting on VM 8 in about 1365, quotes not only from Varāhamihira, but also from Atri, Kalyāṇavarman, Gārgya, Guru, Narapati, Nārada, Bṛhaspati, Bharadvāja, Bhāgila, Bhṛgu, Yavaneśvara (not Sphujidhvaja or Mīnarāja), Lalla, Vasiṣṭha, Vāmadeva, Vāmana, Śaunaka, Śrīpati, and the Saptarṣis.

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He quotes as well from a number of works whose titles but not authors he names. Among these is the Vivāhavṛndāvana,⁶² which is indeed the work of that title⁶³ composed by Keśavārka.⁶⁴ In seventeen adhyāyas it deals in unparalleled completeness with all aspects of the subject. A commentary, the Vivāhadīpikā or Karapīḍanadīpikā, was composed by Gaṇeśa at Nandigrāma in 1554. Also ascribed to a Keśavārka⁶⁵ is a Mauñjīpaṭala⁶⁶ in but twelve verses.

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⁶² Vivāhavṛndāvana 3, 3–4 are quoted on VM 8, 18, and Vivāhavṛndāvana 3, 10 on VM 8, 20.

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⁶³ Published with Gaṇeśa's ṭīkā, Kāśī 1868; with KĀŚĪRĀMA'S Hindī ṭīkā, Bombay 1907; with ŚIVADATTA TRIPĀṬHIN'S Hindī ṭīkā, Kāśī 1909; and with Gaṇeśa's ṭīkā, Bombay 1909.

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⁶⁴ CESS A 2, 75a–77a; A 3, 25a; and A 4.

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⁶⁵ CESS A 2, 75a, and A 4.

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⁶⁶ Edited by K. K. RAIKVA, Vivāhapaṭalam, Bombay 1935, pp. 63–65.

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The other vivāha texts that we have include the Sārasamuccaya or Vivāhapaṭala⁶⁷ of Sāraṅgapāṇi, a nibandha based largely on the Sārasamuccaya of Vaidyanātha (the earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1597); the Vivāhapaṭala⁶⁸ of Brahmāditya⁶⁹ (the earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1605); and the Vivāhapaṭala⁷⁰ composed by Pītāmbara⁷¹ at Stambhatīrtha (Cambay, Gujarāt) (the earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1615).

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⁶⁷ Edited RAIKVA, ibid., pp. 1–62.

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⁶⁸ I have used the fragmentary Harvard 405, which contains a commentary attributed to Sumatiharṣa.

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⁶⁹ CESS A 4.

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⁷⁰ Edited RAIKVA, ibid. pp. 66–79.

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⁷¹ CESS A 4.

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