A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.168
A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.168
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Prince Śaṅkara Varmā, known also as Appu Tampuran, belonged to the royal house of Kaṭṭanāṭ in North Malabar. He was an astute astronomer and his *Sadratnamālā*,³ in six chapters, is a compendium of the Kerala school of mathematics and astronomy. The date of composition of the work is indicated in the concluding verse of the work by the chronogram *lokāmbe siddhisevye* (17,97,313), which falls in A. D. 1823. The author himself has written an elaborate commentary on the work, which, however, extends only up to verse 32 of the last chapter.⁴