Muñjāla or Manjula (fl. 932) was an Indian astronomer known only from two ephemeris and calculation texts, the Ḅhanmānasa and the Laghumanasa. The first is only known from commentaries and references to by al-Biruni, while the second has survived as manuscript versions.
Some commentaries refer to him as Munjalaka, such as Suryadeva Yajva's 1248 commentary. He is said to come from a place called "Praksha-pattana" which is thought to have been somewhere in northern India. In south India the name used was Munjala as in Bhaskara II and Munisvara in his Siddhanta-Siromani. Manjula refers to Karanasara, the work of Vatesvara and he uses the epochal computations starting from noon, March 10, 932. Manjula's calculations for the paths of Mars is probably drawn from Lalla's Sisyadhivriddhida. He belonged to the school of Aryabhata I.[1][2]
References
^Shukla, Kripa Shankar (1990). Laghu Manasa Of Manjula A Critical Study. Indian National Science Academy.
^Duke, Dennis W. (2007). "The Second Lunar Anomaly in Ancient Indian Astronomy". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 61 (2): 147–157. ISSN 0003-9519.
External links
Laghu Manasa with commentary by Paramesvara edited by Balvant Dattatreya Apte
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