[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Pippalagrama of the Nikumbha king?

[Martin Gansten]

I'm not sure what 'hailed from' implies in this context (it could be an 
ancestral connection), but it would have been good to see a textual 
source. Pingree, while not infallible, states (CESS A3, 177b ff.) that 
Nīlakaṇṭha was 'a resident of Dharmapura on the Godāvarī in Vidarbha' 
and '[o]ne of the leading astrologers at Kāśī in the late 16th century'. 
(Śaka 1509 = 1587 CE; the 1567 is probably just a misprint.)

(Incidentally, Nīlakaṇṭha didn't actually author the Praśnatantra:)
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/5/5

Martin


Den 2017-06-09 kl. 20:46, skrev Nagaraj Paturi:
> Not related to the book under question, just regarding Kashmir 
> connection here 
> <https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Neelakantha%20%28Hindu%20astrologer%29>: 
>
>
> *Neelakantha*, the 16th century author of Tajika Neelakanthi and 
> Prasna Tantra, and the son of Anantadeva, hailed from Kashmir; his 
> brother, Ramchandra, wrote Muhurta Chintamani, the famous treatise on 
> Electional Astrology.[1] Neelakantha was the court astrologer of the 
> MoghulEmperor, Jalaluddin Akbar. According to Deepak Kapoor, 
> Neelakantha was born in the year 1556[2] The Tajika system of 
> prognostication depends on the Varshaphala,[3]Neelakantha wrote his 
> famous book on Varshaphala, Tajika Neelakanthi, in the year 1587.[4] 
> However, B V Raman in the introduction to Prasna Tantra states that in 
> the last part of his Varshatantra (of Tajika Neelakanthi), Neelakantha 
> records that he composed this book on the eighth day of the bright 
> half of Aswija of Saka year 1509 which means 1567 AD. There is also 
> evidence that he hailed from Vidarbha and that he was 43 or 44 years 
> old when he wrote this book.[5]
>
> *References*
>
>  1. Islamic Culture Vol.26. p. 57.
>  2. Astronomy and mathematical astrology. p. 143.
>  3. A textbook on Varshaphala.
>  4. Hart De Fouw. Light on Life. Lotus Press. p. 19.
>  5. B.V.Raman. Prasna Tantra (Horary astrology). Raman Publications.
>     p. ix.
>
>




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