A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s6.43

c10.s6.43

Citrabhānu Nampūtiri, author of Karaṇāmṛta, an advanced manual on astronomical computation in four chapters, was a pupil of Nilakaṇṭha Somayāji, whom he mentions as ‘Gārgya’ in the beginning of his work. He belonged to the Gautama-gotra and hailed from the village of Covvaram (Skt. Śivapuram) near Trichur. The date of composition of Karaṇāmṛta which is indicated in that work by the Kali chronogram buddhyonmathyoddhṛtam yatnat (16,91,513) (A.D. 1530) gives the clue to its author's date.³