According to David Pingree (CESS A5: 335), the astrological author
Yādavasūri (early 17th century, Gujarat?) lived in a place called
Vāī. In support, Pingree quotes the author's Tājikayogasudhānidhi
(16.27):
śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavādyaḥ śrīvāīnāmni supure ca sādhvī |
śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||
This is neither metrically nor syntactically satisfactory. On
examining a manuscript of the text, I found that it read:
śrīvatsasaṃjñād dvijapuṅgavād yaṃ śrībhāyināmnī suṣuve ca sādhvī |
śrīyādavena vyaracīha tena sudhānidhis tājikayogapūrvaḥ ||
Yādavasūri thus appears to give his mother's name as śrībhāyi.
I have not come across this name before -- can anyone confirm that
it exists?
Thanks in advance,
Martin Gansten