[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) › c9.19 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c9.19 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c9.19 - **Language:** English ### [c9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.19) In the early sixteenth century—he was a leader of the Gosvāmins (of the followers of Caitanya?), and the earliest dated manuscript of his work was copied in 1543—Nārāyaṇadāsa Siddha¹⁸ composed the Praśnavaiṣṇava or Praśnārṇavaplava¹⁹ in which again elements of tājika (i.e., Arabic-Persian) interrogational astrology enter into praśna. Also in the early sixteenth century Kāśīnātha²⁰ composed his Praśnapradīpa;²¹ the earliest dated manuscript was copied in 1556. And perhaps from the same period is the Praśnamāṇikyamālā of Paramānanda Śarman;²² one manuscript is said to have been copied in 1560, but the author is also said to have flourished at the court of Balavantasimha, the Mahārāja of Kāśī in about 1748. - [Previous: c9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.18) - [Next: c9.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.20) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.19) · Pramāṇa