Mathurānātha Śarman () was an Indian calendrist and

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who lived in

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and belonged to the Saurapakṣa tradition of

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. He is known from his work the ''Ravisiddhāntamañjarī'' or ''Sūryasiddhāntamañjarī'', with planetary

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tables and the means to compute

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. The Sanskrit manuscript of the ''Ravisiddhāntamañjarī'' was published in the

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series, work number 198, by the

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. He may also have been the author of some other works including the Pañcaṅgaratna and the Praśnaratnāṅkura or Samayāmṛta..

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Mathurānātha Śarman (1911). Ravisiddhāntamañjarī. Bibliotheca Indica, no. 198, edited by Viśvambhara Jyotisārnava. Calcutta: Asiatic Society. {{Authority control Indian astronomers 17th-century Indian astronomers Indian science writers Chronologists Bengali astronomers Bengali writers