A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c9.s5.7

c9.s5.7

In the matter of preparing annual almanacs, while the general trend in Kerala, as elsewhere, has been to prepare them for one year at a time, efforts had been made to prepare long-range almanacs covering long periods. It has been recorded that Mādhava of Saṅgamagrāma compiled an Agaṇita-pañcāṅga¹ which is, probably, the same as referred to in the Karaṇapaddhati (IV. 14, 16, 18) and preserved in the Kerala University Oriental Research Institute under the title Agaṇitagrahacāra. Śaṅkaran Nampūtiri of Mahiṣamaṅgalam is credited with a ‘Register of Muhūrtas’² for 1000 years. The Agaṇita of Nalleppaḷḷi Subrahmaṇya Śāstri enunciates methods for the facile computation of the planets for a 1000 years.³