A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s5.1

c10.s5.1

Udayadivākara, surnamed Jyotiṣikabhaṭṭa, author of the elaborate commentary called *Sundarī* on the *Laghubhāskarīya*, which takes as its epoch 1073,⁶ probably hailed from Kerala. In the *Sundarī* he quotes as many as twenty verses from an unnamed work of a mathematician Jayadeva and comments on them.¹ His comments on Jayadeva are quoted also in the *Līlāvatīvyākhyā* (Kriyākramakarī) by Nārāyaṇa (Madras Ms. R. 2754, pp. 182, 183-84, 185). Possibly Udayadivākara has commented on Jayadeva’s work in full.