A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.140

c10.s8.140

A Śaṅkara, about whom little personal details are available, is the author of two works, entitled *Jātakasāra* (III) and *Praśnasāra* (I).⁵ Both are in Malayalam prose interspersed with Sanskrit verse and have four chapters each. The former deals with the main topics of practical astrology starting from the drawing of a horoscope, and the latter with astrological queries relating to age, marriage, children and profit and loss. He is, probably, the author also of *Praśnānuṣṭhana-paddhati*, which occurs in two versions, I and II.