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Yavaneśvara
Setsuro Ikeyama
Flourished (western India),
149/150
Yavaneśvara translated a Greek astrological text (probably
composed in Alexandria in the 1st half of the 2nd century BCE) into Sanskrit
prose in 149/150 at Ujjayinī, the capital of the Western Kṣatrapas, during the reign of Rudradāman I. (Yavaneśvara,
literally lord of the Greeks, was probably a title for leaders of Greek
merchants in Western India, circa 78390, and not a proper name.) This
translation, which is no longer extant, was versified and titled Yavanajātaka
by Sphujidhvaja
in 269/270. Verse 61 of Chapter 79 of this work runs:
Yavaneśvara,
who sees the truth coming from the brightness of the sun and speaks unblamable
words, conveyed this treatise on horoscopy for the local authority in primitive
words.
The work
of Yavaneśvara became one of the major sources for Indian horoscopy.
Selected References
Pingree, David (1976). Yavaneśvara. In Dictionary
of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. Vol. 14,
p. 549. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
(1981). Jyotihśāstra.
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 89, 109.
(1994). Census
of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit. Series A. Vol. 5, p. 330b. Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society.
(ed. and trans.) (1978). The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja.
2 Vols. Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 48. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press.