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The Surya Siddhanta is a text on astronomy and time keeping, an idea that appears much earlier as the field of Jyotisha of the Vedic period.The field of Jyotisha deals with ascertaining time, particularly forecasting auspicious dates and times for Vedic rituals. [25]
Greek astronomical texts were translated from Jyotisha Shastra Sanskrit pertaining of Surya Siddhanta and other works by different Indian Scholars. Similar to how most books of philosophy, mathematics in Sanskrit Literature made its way into Greece by trade.
Makarandasāriṇi follows the Saurapakṣa.This is the midnight-epoch system embodied in a recension of the Sūryasiddhānta dating to around the eighth century. [1] This is reflected in the choices of the values of the fundamental parameters, like the values of the celestial bodies’ revolution-numbers and consequent mean velocities.
Surya Siddhanta: 365 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes, 36.56 seconds ... In both Indian and Greek-Roman nomenclature for days of the week, the Sunday is dedicated to the Sun.
The Arya-siddhanta, a lost work on astronomical computations, is known through the writings of Aryabhata's contemporary, Varahamihira, and later mathematicians and commentators, including Brahmagupta and Bhaskara I. This work appears to be based on the older Surya Siddhanta and uses the midnight-day reckoning, as opposed to sunrise in ...
Surya Siddhanta. Though its authorship is unknown, the Surya Siddhanta (c. 400) contains the roots of modern trigonometry. [citation needed] Because it contains many words of foreign origin, some authors consider that it was written under the influence of Mesopotamia and Greece. [70] [better source needed]
According to Burgess, the Surya Siddhanta fixes the starting point of Kali Yuga as: The instant at which the Age is made to commence is midnight on the meridian of Ujjayini, at the end of the 588,465th and beginning of the 588,466th day (civil reckoning) of the Julian Period, or between the 17th and 18th of February 1612 J.P., or 3102 B.C. [63]
Vivarana – Commentary on Surya Siddhanta and Lilāvati; Drgganita – Description of the Drig system (composed in 1431 CE) Goladipika – Spherical geometry and astronomy (composed in 1443 CE) Grahanamandana – Computation of eclipses (Its epoch is 15 July 1411 CE.) Grahanavyakhyadipika – On the rationale of the theory of eclipses