[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) › c9.s9 # A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c9.s9: 17. Malayalam versions of Sanskrit texts A History of the Kerala School of Hindu Astronomy (in Perspective) c9.s9 - **Language:** English ### 17. Malayalam versions of Sanskrit texts ### [c9.s9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c9.s9.1) It is interesting to note that almost all \*Jyotiṣa\* works in Sanskrit have one or more commentaries or renderings in Malayalam, produced, obviously, with a view to introduce their study among the non-Sanskrit knowing public. This is a feature found in many other regions of India as well. The Malayalam versions are generally called the \*Bhāṣa\* of the works concerned. Often the author of the original work himself prepared the \*Bhāṣa\* and at other times, others. There have also been adaptations and abridgements of Sanskrit works. A very instructive instance of this trend is found in the works of an Āzhvāñceri Tamprākkal who, in a series of works, adapted a number of important Sanskrit texts and also provided the Malayalam renderings of these adaptations. Thus, his \*Phalasāra-samuccaya\*, in three parts, forms, in its Part I called \*Jatakabhāga\*, an adaptation of the \*Hora\* of Varāhamihira and the \*Sārāvalī\* of Kalyāṇavarman, in Part II called \*Praśnabhāga\*, an adaptation of the \*Praśnamārga\* of Panakkāṭṭu Nampūtiri, and in part III entitled \*Muhūrtabhāga\*, of the \*Muhūrtadarśana\* of Vidyāmādhva. In fact, of the ten works credited to this author, five, viz., \*Jyotiśśāstrasaṅgraha\*, \*Saṅgrahasādhanakriyā\*, \*Jātakasārasaṅgraha\*, \*Jātakanītimārga\* and \*Phalasārasamuccaya\*, are adaptations of standard Sanskrit works and the other five, form the \*Bhāṣa-s\* of these five works. ## Linked texts (3) - [Sārāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.saravali) — Kalyāṇavarman, Sanskrit - [Bṛhajjātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.brhajjataka) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit - [Phalasārasamuccaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.kerala.keraliya.phalasarasamuccaya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c9.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.sarma-1972.c9.s9) · Pramāṇa