A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.190

c10.s8.190

Among later scholars who continued the tradition of Jyotiṣa and who, by their expositions and interpretations, helped to sustain and promote astronomical and astrological studies in the land, a mention might be made of four important names: (1) Rāma Vāriyar of Kaikkulaṅgara (1833-97), author of *Samudrikaśastra* and *Gauliśastra* and commentator of *Hora* and *Praśnamārga*;⁴ (2) A. R. Rajaraja Varma Koyittampurān (1853-1918) who wrote two studies entitled, respectively, *Karaṇa-pariṣkaraṇa* and *Pañcāṅgaśuddhipaddhati*⁵ and *Jyotiṣaprakāśana*,⁶ being an exposition of the *Golādhyāya* of Bhāskara II;¹ (3) Vāsuṇṇi Mūssatu of Veḷḷanaśśeri (1855-1914), author of an erudite commentary in Malayalam on *Pañcabodha*;² and (4) Puṇṇaśśeri Nampi Nīlakaṇṭha Śarmā (1858-1935) who compiled a very instructive manual on astronomy under the title *Jyotiśśāstrasubodhinī* with an extensive elucidation³ and wrote a *Pañcabodhakriyā-Bhāṣā*, besides commenting, elaborately, on the *Camatkāracintāmaṇi* and the *Praśnamārga*, both published through the Bharata Vilasam Press, Trichur.⁴