A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c10.s8.23

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In the matter of the popularisation of studies on Jyotiṣa among the masses in Kerala, Śaṅkaran Nampūtiri of Mazhamaṅgalam (Skt. Mahiṣamaṅgalam) family had an important part to play. Śaṅkara hailed from the Perumanam village near Trichur but spent most of his active life at Chengannoor with his teacher Parameśvaran Poṭṭi of Vāzha-māveli house. In his work, Rūpānayapaddhati, on grammar, Śaṅkara gives the date of his birth in the chronogram jatoyam haṃsatulye('hani) (Kali day 16,78,168), which falls in A.D. 1494.