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The Surya Siddhanta text has survived since the ancient times, has been the best known and the most referred astronomical text in the Indian tradition. [7] The fourteen chapters of the Surya Siddhanta are as follows, per the much cited Burgess translation: [4] [43] Of the Mean Motions of the Planets [3] On the True Places of the Planets [3]: 53
Later writer Yallaya (c. 1480), in his commentary on the Surya Siddhanta, praises Suryadeva as an "all-knowing astronomer". [4] In his commentary on the Laghumanasa, he states the planetary positions for a particular day in 1248 CE (Shaka year 1170), which suggests that he wrote the commentary at the age of 57, in 1248. [6]
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.
The text today known as Surya Siddhanta dates to the Gupta period and was received by Aryabhata. The classical era of Indian astronomy begins in the late Gupta era, in the 5th to 6th centuries. The Pañcasiddhāntikā by Varāhamihira (505 CE) approximates the method for determination of the meridian direction from any three positions of the ...
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.
The Surya Siddhanta (1.10–21) describes units of time from a respiration (prana) [50] up to the 100-year lifespan of Brahma (maha-kalpa). [ 51 ] lokānām antakṛt kālaḥ kālo 'nyaḥ kalanātmakaḥ ।
For example, the surviving version of the Surya Siddhanta can be dated to 1000 CE, although its original version may have been composed around 400 CE. [10] Similarly, the Paitamaha Siddhanta referred to by Varāhamihira was probably composed in the early 5th century (distinct from an even earlier work of the same name [ 11 ] ), but the present ...
In one of his works titled Siddhanta-star and also in his own commentary on Siddhanta-darpana, Nilakantha Somayaji stated that he was born on Kali-day 1,660,181 which works out to 14 June 1444 CE. A contemporary reference to Nilakantha Somayaji in a Malayalam work on astrology implies that Somayaji lived to a ripe old age even to become a ...