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Dinakara
Setsuro Ikeyama
Flourished (Gujarat, India),
15781583
The Indian
astronomer Dinakara composed three sets of astronomical tables. He belonged
to the Moḍha clan of
the Kauśika lineage, and was the son of Rāmeśvara and great
grandson of Dunda. Dinakara resided in Bārejya (or Bāreja) in Gujarat.
His tables are (1) the Candrārkī (epoch 1578) for which there
is an anonymous commentary on it, (2) the Khe'ṭasiddhi
(epoch 1578); and (3) the Tithisāraṇī (or Dinakarasāraṇī)
(epoch 1583). The first two tables are planetary tables for computing the
longitudes of the planets; the first deals with the Sun and Moon, including
the tables for calendar making, and the second with the other five planets.
The third is for making Indian calendars. These use the parameters of the
Brahma school.
Selected References
Pingree, David
(1968). Sanskrit Astronomical Tables in the United States. Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society, n.s.,
58, pt. 3: 51b53a.
(1971). Dinakara.
In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. Vol. 4, p. 100.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
(1973). Sanskrit Astronomical
Tables in England. Madras: Kuppuswami Sastri
Research Institute.
Census of the Exact, Sciences
in Sanskrit. Series, A. Vol. 3 (1976): 102b104b; Vol. 4 (1981): 109a109b;
Vol. 5 (1994): 138a139b. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
(1981). Jyotihśāstra.
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.