A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.154

c10.s8.154

Parameśvara, disciple of Agnidatta, was a member of the Nampūtiri family of Purayannūr (Skt. Puradahanapura), in the Vaḷḷuvanāṭ taluk of South Malabar. He was a poet of merit and is the author of two long poems in Malayalam. His significant contribution to Jyotiṣa is his commentary Varadīpikā, composed, in A.D. 1815 (cf. ‘naḷadhi’-saṅkhya-koḷambe, M.E. 990), on the Muhūrtapadavī II of Māttūr Puruṣottaman Nampūtiri. This commentary is highly elucidative, profusely documented and extremely elaborate, in 2000 granthas for a text of 35 verses. One of the important works quoted by Parameśvara is the Prācīna-Muhūrtapadavī (Muhūrtapadavī I), supposed to have been written by Govinda Bhaṭṭatiri of Taḷakkuḷam.¹