[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) › c7.s7.22 # A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c7.s7.22 A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c7.s7.22 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7.22) A large number of astronomical manuals based on the \*Parahita\* system, including a \*Grahacāranibandhana-saṅgraha\*,² have come to be composed during later times, both in Sanskrit and in Malayalam, each taking off from a convenient contemporary epoch (\*khaṇḍa-dina\*) for which the True positions of the planets would have been fixed after elaborate calculations, these positions being used as zero-corrections for computation according to these manuals. Some of these incorporate also further corrections. - [Previous: c7.s7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7.21) - [Next: c7.s7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7.23) - [Up: c7.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c7.s7.22) · Pramāṇa