बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

4 बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. I. Sl. 8-9
Sloka 7.—Sage Kapila has declared प्रधान-Pradhana
(the unmanifested Prakriti) to be the material cause of
the universe, while Sage Kanada—who was the founder
of the atomic theory relating to the origin of the
Universe—has described the Dravyas—the nine sub-
stances—as the material cause. Some have opined that
time is the cause of the universe. There are others who
say that the universe was produced and is sustained by
the natural and necessary action of substances according
to their inherent properties (and not by the agency of
a supreme being). Lastly, there are people who state
that the actions—good or bad—of the beings are the
cause of the universe.
तदलमतिविस्तरेण प्रसङ्गवादार्थनिर्णयोऽतिमहान् ।
ज्योतिःशास्त्राङ्गानां वक्तव्यो निर्णयोऽत्र मया ॥८॥
Sloka 8.—Enough of this incidental discourse on
a polemical and vast subject, and which, if it were to
be discussed, would swell to a very great length and
be of no avail to us for the present. I am now
going to treat in a decisive manner of the principles of
the science of Astrology—Jyotissastra—and the ancillary
topics.
ज्योतिःशास्त्रमनेकभेदविषयं स्कन्धत्रयाधिष्ठितं
तत्कार्त्स्न्योपनयस्य नाम मुनिभिः सङ्कीर्त्यते संहिता ।
स्कन्धेऽस्मिन् गणितेन या ग्रहगतिस्तन्त्राभिधानस्त्वसौ
होराऽन्योऽङ्गविनिश्चयश्च कथितः स्कन्धस्तृतीयोऽपरः॥९॥
Sloka 9.—The science of Astrology consists of
various branches and is in three sections or Skandhas—
viz., गणित-Ganita, होरा-Hora and शाखा-Sakha, and the
treatment of the subject in its entirety is termed by sages