A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c9.s10.6

c9.s10.6

*The desideratum.* The non-Kerala works on Kerala Jyotisa, mentioned above, demonstrate how the specialities of a discipline as evolved in one region of India have been transmitted to the other regions of the country and how they have been accepted, preserved and propagated in those parts under the label of their original place of origin. It is well to remember here that it is but natural that during their transmission and propagation through the centuries, some of the original ideas might have undergone some modifications. It is also possible that some new or local ideas have come to be incorporated in these works and paraded as Keralite views. It would be extremely instructive to investigate this subject fully. Comparative studies between the non-Keralite works and allied Keralite works could show how far the former represent the original views. The textual or other sources from Kerala, if any, of the individual non-Keralite works have to be identified. It would also be interesting to examine why these works are almost always unknown in Kerala, the land to which the ideas expressed therein are supposed to belong.