present publication, being recasts and supplements by later astronomers to the Sphutanirnaya-which is but one of the several works of Acyuta-would indicate the measure of the impact of his teachings on later astronomical thought and practices. Of the several lines of disciples that should have emanated from him, we have evidence, at least, of one extending over three centuries, through eight generations. Thus, an 18th-19th century astronomer-poet Krsnadasa (Mal. Krsnan Aśān), author of a Pañcabodha,a Jātakapaddhati, a commentary on the Dasagitisutra section of the Aryabhatiya, etc., all in Malayalam, gives in his work Aranmula vilasam, in Malayalam verse, the genealogy of his teachers, right from Acyuta Pisarati, in the following Malayalam couplets :
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रामन् एग्नेल्लाटयुं विश्रुतनायिट्टभि |
l. See K. Sankara Menon, Intro, to his edin. of Bhasa-Jatakapaddhati of Krşņadása (Trivandrum, M.E. 1101) ; Ulloor, Kęrala Sahitya Charitram, vol. II, (Trivandrum, 1954), pp. 321-22.
