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केशवदैवज्ञ (kezavadaivajJa)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
केशव—दैवज्ञ
m.
N.
of an astronomer.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
केशव दैवज्ञ of Nandigrāma, son of Kamalākara, father
of Ananta Daivajña:
Grahakautuka. K. 226. Oudh VI, 8. BP. 83. 307.
Grahalāghava. B. 4, 126. Rice 30 (and C.).
Tākṣakakarmapaddhatiṭīkā. Bik. 311.
Muhūrtamārtaṇḍa. Mack. 126.
Siddhāntalaghukhamāṇika. Cambr. 45.
केशव दैवज्ञ son of Kamalākara and pupil of Vaidya-
nātha. He was father of Ananta (Kālanirṇayāva-
bodha), Gaṇeśa (Grahalāghava etc.), and Rāma, the
father of Nṛsiṃha (Grahakaumudī, Grahadīpikā). His
son Gaṇeśa mentions in the C. on the Muhūrtatattva
the following works of Keśava:
Kāyasthādidharmapaddhati, Grahakautuka, Jāta-
kapaddhati and C., Tājakapaddhati, Tithisiddhi,
Muhūrtatattva, Siddhānte Upapattipāṭhanicaya,
See Gaṇakataraṅgiṇī by Sudhākara in Paṇḍit
XIV, p. 173. Sudhākara adds: Kuṇḍāṣṭaka-
lakṣaṇa, Gaṇitadīpikā, Varṣagranthasiddhi
(Siddhantavāsanāpāṭha).
The Jātakapaddhati is also called Keśavī. Keśavī
bṛhatī B. 4, 166. Laghvī and C. by Viśva-
nātha. K. 224. See Jātakakeśavī.