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# A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s5.39

A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s5.39

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### [c10.s5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s5.39)

A member of the Tāmaraṇallūr family has produced an authoritative work entitled \*Muhūrtavidhi\*, called also \*Muhūrtam Bhāṣā\*. The work is popularly known as \*Tāmaraṇallūr Bhāṣā\*, after its author. It deals with the fixation of auspicious times for functions and is composed in early \*bhāṣā-miśra\* (Skt.-Mal.) verses. The author, who does not reveal his personal name, makes mention of his patron Ceyyūr (?Cellūr) Nārāyaṇan Nampūtiri and might have hailed from Periñcellūr in Malabar.¹

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