Indian astrologer and poet
Vidyamadhava was an Indian astrologer and poet who flourished around 1350 CE. He was a member of a Tulu Brahmin family "Nīlamana" residing in a village called Guṇavatī near Gokarna, Karnataka, on the west coast of India. His father was one Narayaṇa Pūjypāda, a scholar in the court of King Mallappa.
The best known work of Vidyamadhava is "Muhūrtadarśana", a treatise in fifteen chapters dealing with fixing the most auspicious day and time for performing all sorts of religious and other ceremonies. Vidyamadhava's son Viṣṇuśarman has authored a highly acclaimed commentary called "Muhūrtadarśana-dīpikā". Both the original "Muhūrtadarśana" and its commentary "Muhūrtadarśana-dīpikā" have been highly popular among the astrologers in Kerala. As many as six commentaries, two of which are in Sanskrit and the rest in Malayalam, have been composed by Kerala astrologers. And, because of this, even though the place where Vidyamadhava flourished is not within the geographical boundaries of the present-day region referred to as Kerala, K. V. Sarma has considered him as an illustrious member of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. 
Because of the huge popularity of "Muhūrtadarśana", later authors have referred to "Muhūrtadarśana" by different names like "Muhūrtamādhavīyaṃ" and "Vidyamādhavīyaṃ". The complete text of "Vidyamādhavīyaṃ" with the commentary "Muhūrtadarśana-dīpikā" by Viṣṇuśarman edited by Dr Shama Sastri has been digitized and is now available in the Internet Archive for free down load. The titles of the fifteen chapters in the book give an idea of the topics discussed in the work: "saṃjñā" (sign, signal), "doṣa" (harm), "apavāda" (defame), "guṇa" (virtue), "balābala" (strength and weakness), "niṣekādi" (insemination etc.), "vidyopanayana" (initiation to learning, sacred thread ceremony), "vivāha" (marriage), "vāstu" (architecture), "kṛṣi-bījāvāpa" (agriculture, sowing), "deva-pratiṣṭhā" (consecration of idols), "yātrā" (travel), "prakīrṇaka" (tuft of hair), "tārādi-lakṣaṇa" (indications by stars etc.), "puṣpa-graha-gocara" (domain of flowers and planets).
Full text of "Vidyamādhavīyaṃ".
The full text of "Vidyamādhavīyaṃ" with the commentary by Viṣṇuśarman has been published by University of Mysore in three parts during 1923-1926 which are available in the Internet Archive at the following links:
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