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Rāghavānanda Śarman
Setsuro Ikeyama
Flourished Rāḍha,
Bengal, (India), 1591–1599
Rāghavānanda
Śarman was a Brāhmaṇa
who followed the Saurapakṣa school of astronomy. He composed several astronomical
works in the late 16th century, including the Viśvahita, a set
of astronomical tables whose epoch is 1591; the Dinacandrikā,
another set of astronomical tables whose epoch is 1599; and the Sūryasiddhāntarahasya,
a commentary on the Sūryasiddhānta, written in 1591. Little
is known of these three works though they have been published.
Selected References
Pingree, David (1975). “Rāghavānanda Śarman.”
In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Vol. 11, p. 264. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
——— (1994). Census
of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit. Series A. Vol. 5, pp. 411a–412b. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society.
Rāghavānanda Śarman (1913). Dinacandrikā,
edited by Bhagavatīcaraṇa Smṇtitīrtha. Calcutta. (With
Bengali commentary and translation.)
——— (1913). Viśvahitam,
edited by Viśvambhara Jyotiṣārṇava and Śrīśacandra
Jyotīratna. Bibliotheca Indica, Vol. 222. Calcutta: Asiatic Society.
(Incorrectly attributed to Mathurānātha Śarman.)
——— (1915). Sūryasiddhāntarahasya, edited by
Rajanīkānta Vidyāvinoda. Calcutta.