[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) › c9.4 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c9.4 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c9.4 - **Language:** English ### [c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.4) Only parts of this treatment of \*praśna\* are found in the \*Ṣaṭpañcāśikā\*¹ composed by Varāhamihira’s son, Pṛthuyaśas,² in the second half of the sixth century. He is interested in travel, warfare, profit and loss, sickness and death, marriage, and pregnancy. The most important commentaries on these fifty-six verses were composed by Bhaṭṭotpala in Kāśmīra in about 970, by Parameśvara in Kerala in the early fifteenth century, and by Dāmodara Rāṇabha³ at Kāśī in about 1680 (Prakāśikā). Similar in content and in brevity are Bādarāyaṇa’s⁴ Praśnavidyā⁵ in seventy-six verses, on which Bhaṭṭotpala wrote a commentary in about 970, and Bhaṭṭotpala’s own Praśnajñāna or Āryāsaptati⁶ in seventy verses, on which commentaries were composed by Rāmakṛṣṇa at Amarāvatī and by Śrīdatta. - [Previous: c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.3) - [Next: c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.5) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9) ## Linked texts (2) - [Ṣaṭpañcāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.satpancasika) — Pṛthuyaśas, Sanskrit - [Praśnajñāna (Brahmārka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.prasna.prasnajnana) — Brahmārka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c9.4) · Pramāṇa