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  2. Surya Siddhanta - Wikipedia

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    Surya-siddhanta-tika (date unknown) by Kama-bhatta of southern India; Ganakopakarini (date unknown) by Chola Vipashchit of southern India; Gurukataksha (date unknown) by Bhuti-vishnu of southern India; Mallikarjuna Suri had written a Telugu language commentary on the text before composing the Sanskrit-language Surya-siddhanta-tika in 1178. [60]

  3. Panchacharyas - Wikipedia

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    Panchacharyas origin is traced to Siddhanta Shikhamani a 15th century mythological fiction of Sanskrit language written by Shivayogi Shivacharya, During 14th century some Telugu aradhya brahmin priests migrated to Kannada region due to rise of Vaishnava dominance in Telugu region, they mesmerized by the large following of Lingayatism, and they started to mix Lingayatism and brahminism, but ...

  4. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    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 ।

  5. Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    Other texts such as Surya Siddhanta dated to have been completed sometime between the 5th century and 10th century present their chapters on various deified planets with stories behind them. [24] The manuscripts of these texts exist in slightly different versions. They present Surya, planet-based calculations and Surya's relative motion to Earth.

  6. Pancha-siddhantika - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Panchangam - Wikipedia

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    It is a mirror of the sky. The document used as Panchāngam has evolved over the last 5000 years. The theories propounded in the two scriptures, Surya Siddhanta and Grahalaghava formed the basis for the plethora of calendars or Panchāngas in the past in different regions of the country - a culturally complex system.

  8. Astronomical basis of the Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    Translation of the Surya Siddhanta – a text-book of Hindu astronomy (PDF). University of Calcutta. Ketkar, Venkatesh Bapuji (1923). "Indian and Foreign Chronology". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay (75, Part 1). British Indian Press. Mercier, Raymond (2018). Astronomical Computations for the History of Indian Astronomy.

  9. Samvatsara - Wikipedia

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    The ancient text Surya Siddhanta calculates the Jovian year to be about 361.026721 days or about 4.232 days shorter than the Earth-based solar year. [3] This difference requires that about once every 85 solars years (~ 86 jovian years), one of the named samvatsara is expunged (skipped as a shadow year), to synchronize the two calendars.