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

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For, the शत्रुञ्जयमाहात्म्य (Satrunjayamahatmya) mentions
a king विक्रमादित्य (Vikramaditya) as having ascended the
throne in 544 A. D. Probably वराह (Varaha) and this
neo Kalidasa were contemporaries of this Vikrama.
Similarly अमरसिंह (Amarasimha) who is identified with
अमरदेव (Amaradeva) that built the Buddha Gaya temple
in about 500 A. D. is said to be a contemporary of our
author. This too will lead to the above conclusion of
his date. Many scholars from the days of Colebrook,
Davis, Sir William Jones, Weber and Lassen have done
much research work on Varahamihira.
(According to Sage Garga, the Science of Astronomy-
cum-Astrology was created by the creator himself for the
sake of the twice-born as ancillary to the Vedas. It was
handed down to Garga by Brahman, and from him,
other sages got it and thus its knowledge was dissem-
nated throughout the world )
It is but right that we draw here the attention of
the readers to the erroneous judgment of many a wes-
tern orientalist regarding Astrology and Greek influence.
On the other hand, (it is the Greeks who freely borrowed
or learnt the various scientific truths from the Aryans of'
India. Clement of Alexandria calls Pythagoras, the
celebrated Greek, a pupil of the Brahmanas. The
Swami Vivekananda, the great spiritual and intellectual
giant of modern India, has ably refuted the false theories
of the Western Orientalists. He says :—
“ There may be, it is true some similarity between the
Greek and Indian terms in astronomy and so forth, but the
westerners have ignored the direct Sanskrit etymology and .
. sought for some far-fetched etymology from the Greek. That