[2] It is regularly studied as a textbook and a reliable reference-book, and is one of the few books that gives time on the nativity, the other two being Horā Ratnaṃ and Jātaka Bharaṇaṃ.
[4] Many noted scholars and authors like - V.Subramanya Sastri, G.S.Kapoor, Gopesh Kumar Ojha, Bangalore Venkata Raman,[5] Bepin Behari,[6] Gayatri Vasudev,[7] S.S.Chaterjee,[8] Ernst Wilhelm, Hart De Fouw, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Komilla Sutton[9] - have translated and written commentaries on Jataka Parijata beside referring to its contents in their own works.
Its author, Vaidyantha, who was a devotee of Ranganatha (Lord Viṣṇu) and lived in South India in Karṇāṭaka or Andhra, belonged to the Bharadvāja Gotra and was the son of Veṅkaṭadri.
These eighteen chapters said to originally contain 1763 ślokas, due to interpolations now consisting of 1910 or 1918 verses, cover the entire range of Hindu astrology based on Parāśarian principles.
He is believed to have lived in South India either in the 14th or 15th century A.D.[citation needed] Not much is known about his life except for his statement in Jataka Parijata.