Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c9.6

c9.6

The amount of detail in praśna texts, though not their scope, was enlarged in the Vidvajjanavallabha⁷ written by (or for) the Paramāra Bhojarāja of Dhārā in the first half of the eleventh century. This poem contains 180 verses divided into eighteen adhyāyas; nine verses are taken from Bādarāyaṇa.⁸ At about the same time, if the ascription to Śrīpati of Rohiṇikhaṇḍa is valid (the work is also, more obviously falsely, associated with Varāhamihira in 15, 43), there was composed a Daivajñavallabha⁹ in 250 verses divided into fifteen adhyāyas, of which the last is almost entirely derived from Varāhamihira’s yātrā works.¹⁰