Munishvara

Munishvara or Munīśvara Viśvarūpa (born 1603) was an Indian mathematician who wrote several commentaries including one on astronomy, the Siddhanta Sarvabhauma (1646), which included descriptions of astronomical instruments such as the pratoda yantra.

His grandfather Ballala had his origins in Dadhigrama in Vidharba and had moved to Benares.

Munisvara's Siddhantasarvabhauma had the patronage of Shah Jahan like his paternal uncle Krishna Daivagna did.

He was opposed to fellow mathematician Kamalakara, whose brother also wrote a critique of Munisvara's bhangi-vibhangi method for planetary motions.

He was also opposed to the adoption of some mathematical ideas in spherical trigonometry from Arab scholars.