Jataka Bharanam is an old treatise on Hindu astrology mainly dealing with the Phalita i.e. predictive astrology. This Sanskrit text is believed to have been written by Dhundiraja, the commentator of Mudrarakshasa, sometime during the 15th Century A.D. Dhundiraja lived in Parthanagar near River Godavari. It is one of the many time honoured important Indian Classics on astrology that has been relied upon and frequently cited.