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

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who was a great astronomer cast the horoscope of the
Buddha according to Hieuntsang. Kasyapa also was a
very ancient sage, who does not mention the Romakas
at all.
From this work, it appears quite clear that वराह
had already written his पञ्चसिद्धान्तिका and the बृहज्जातक (I-10)
According to him, the होरा (Hora) should treat of horo-
scopy, questions about journey and marriage. The पञ्च-
सिद्धान्तिका which is based on the five Siddhantas has been
. published with an English translation by G. Thibut in
1888 He seems to have written two other big works,
namely Brihat Yatra and Brihat Vivahapatala. He has
also written three smaller editions of these, viz (लघु ?)
स्वल्पजातक, लघुयात्रा and लघुविवाहपटल. The Brihat Jataka
is very famous. Bhattotpala has commented upon it.
One महीधर also seems to have written a commentary on
it. Albiruni speaks of a commentary on it by बलभद्र
(Balabhadra). This Balabhadra has written an inde-
pendent astrological work from which extracts are
quoted in the pages of Jatakaparijata. The लघुजातक which
is also commented upon by Bhattotpala has been trans-
lated into Arabic by Albiruni as already stated above.
Only two chapters of this लघुजातक are now available. The
यात्रा according to Utpala cantains 14 chapters. Dr. Kern
has said that a manuscript copy of this work was with
him. The copy now available has only 7 chapters and
goes under the name of योगयात्रा. It is not complete either.
Hence we may conclude that it might be the लघुयात्रा.
We know nothing about the author's विवाहपटल. Owing
to its utter absence, the commentator has probably in-