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SAMBODHI The Astrological Works of Das abala by David Pingree. Aligarh Oriental Series No.9. Viveka Publications, Aligarh, 1988, pp. 60, Rs. 50/-, $ 101
This is the second volume of a series of medieval Sanskrit astronomical texts, the first being the Rājamrgānka of Bhojarāja edited by Dr. Pingree and published in the Aligarh Oriental Series at No. 7, in 1987.
The two extant works of Dasabala (11th Cent. A. D. ) edited in this book are entitled Cintamani, a set of tithi, naksatra and yoga tables (sāranikā), and Karana-kamalamārtanda, a karana.
Dasabala was the son of Virocana and a yonger brother of Ratnasambhava, as well as Vālabha, taken by Kosambi to mean a resient of Valabhi in Sāurastra. It seems to Pingree, on the basis of a reference to 'Vālabhānvaya' in the Karana-kamala-mārtanda (10.19) and Tilakwādā Copper Plate of 1046, that this name does not indicate Dasabalas residence, though it may be connected with the place of his family's origin. The colophones of the Cintāmani call Dašabala a Bodhisttva. He was a contemporary of Bhojadeva.
The epoch of the Cintamani (1.15-17 and 5.2-3) is mean Mesa-sankrānti of Saka 977, i.e. March 25, 1055 A. D., when Bhoja was ruling the earth. The epoch of the Karanakamala-mārtanda is the beginning of Caitra of Saka 980 (1.4 and 9-10), i.e. February 25, 1858 A.D.
This edition of Cintāmani published here is based on the manuscripts of the work preserved in the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, and on another one in Oxford, as also the previous edition of Kosambi, which provides the frequently corrupt readings. The order and, in part, the working of text in the Vrtti of Mahaeva. The text of this first work is entitled 'Atha Dasabala-viracitā Cintamanih Sāranikā'. It consists of five Paricchedas, called Tithiprakarnam, Naksatraprakaranam, Yogaprakaranam, Prakī-rnaprakaranam and Samvatsarānayanam, respectively. The first pariccheda consists of 62 verses, the second of 20 verses, the third of 21 verses, the fourth of 36 verses and the fifth of 4 verses; the whole work thus comprising 143 verses in all.
Along with this work the Dasabala-vrtti of Mahādeva has also been given separately after the text of the Cintāmani. Mahādeva, the son of Luniga, completed his Vrtti on Dasabala's Cintāmani on Monday in the month of Fälguna of Saka 1180, i.e. sometime between January 27 to February 17, 1219 A. D. Mahādeva's father Luniga was the grandson of Bandhuka of the Janyālaya- vamša, a companion of the Cālukya king Karņa, who reigned from ca. 1066 till ca. 1093. Furthermore, our commentator's uncles were Amararaja the commentator of Brahmagupta's Khandakhādyaka, and Arjuna (ayājī), a companion of the Cālukya king Bhima II, who regined from ca. 1178 till ca. 1241. The Dasabala-vrtti quotes from Brahmagupta's Brahmasphuta-siddhānta and Khandakhā dyaka, Bhojarāja's Aditya-pratāpa-siddhānta and Varāhamihira's Brhatsamhitā.
The second work is entitled 'Atha Dasabala-viracito Karana-kamala-mārtandah.' It
