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[3] [4] [5] The Surya Siddhanta describes rules to calculate the motions of various planets and the moon relative to various constellations, diameters of various planets, and calculates the orbits of various astronomical bodies. [6] [7] The text is known from a 15th-century CE palm-leaf manuscript, and several newer manuscripts. [8]
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 ।
Surya Siddhānta: Varahamihira (6th century CE) 3,200 yojana Bhāskara I (c. 600 – c. 680 CE) 1,050 or 1600 yojana Brahmagupta (c. 598 – c. 668 CE) 1,581 yojana 5,000 yojana Bhāskara II (1114–1185 CE) 1,581 yojana 4,967 yojana Nilakantha Somayaji (1444 – 1545 CE) 3,300 yojana
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.
Surya Siddhanta, Ch. 1: [10] (13) ... twelve months make a year. This is called a day of the gods. (14) ... Six times sixty [360] of them are a year of the gods ... (15) Twelve thousand of these divine years are denominated a Quadruple Age (caturyuga); of ten thousand times four hundred and thirty-two [4,320,000] solar years (18) One and ...
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.
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 ...
A tithi (Sanskrit: तिथि) is the time taken by the Moon to advance 12° with respect to the Earth-Sun axis. [6] In other words a tithi is the time taken for the Moon's elongation (on the ecliptic plane) to increase by 12°. A tithi is one fifteenth of a pakṣa and one thirtieth of a cāndramāsa.