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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
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
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 ...
The Surya Siddhanta bridges this difference by juxtaposing the four solstitial and equinoctial points with four of the twelve boundaries of the rashis. [ 2 ] The complement of Uttarayana is Dakshinayana (the southward movement of the Sun).
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 ।
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 Romaka Siddhanta ("The Doctrine of the Romans") and the Paulisa Siddhanta were two works of Western origin which influenced Varāhamihira's thought. The Pauliṣa Siddhānta is often mistakenly thought to be a single work and attributed to Paul of Alexandria (c. 378 CE). [43]
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-day text is a later work that survives as part of a Purana text. [12] Thus, Varāhamihira's text is the only source about these ancient treatises. [13]