[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972) › c10.s8.190 # A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.190 A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.190 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s8.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.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 - [Previous: c10.s8.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.189) - [Next: c10.s8.191](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.191) - [Up: c10.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8) ## Cites (4) - [Praśnamārga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.keraliya.prasnamarga) — Nārāyaṇa of Iṭakkāṭ 1649, Sanskrit - [Sāmudrikaśāstra (Gargamuni)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samudrika.arsa.samudrikasastra-gargamuni) — Gargamuni, Sanskrit - [Camatkāracintāmaṇi (Lolimbarāja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.cikitsa.lolimbaraja.camatkaracintamani) — Lolimbarāja, Sanskrit - [Siddhāntaśiromaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.siddhantasiromani) — Bhāskara II, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.190](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c10.s8.190) · Pramāṇa