पञ्चसिद्धान्तिका (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - सूर्य, रोमक, पौलिश, वासिष्ठ एवं पितामह सिद्धान्त)

INTRODUCTION XIX
reason that they have mostly been documented by Pingree in his edition of the PS and so can be
referred to therefrom.¹
3. Presentation of the Text
While the generally accepted conventions of critical editing of Indic texts are duly followed in the
present edition, attention might be drawn to certain methodologies which are stressed herein, in
view of the technical nature of the text, the defective nature of the manuscripts and the tentative-
ness of many of the emendations and textual changes effected in the two earlier editions.
i. On account of the inadequacies of the copyists of the parent manuscripts and also due to
deficiencies in the parent manuscripts themselves, some emendations have to be done in the edited
text. However special care has been taken in this edition to indicate such emendations by placing
them within curved brackets; square brackets are used to enclose fillings of apparent omissions or
newly suggested readings. Doubtful suggestions are marked by an interrogation mark.

1. Studies mentioned in this footnote have mostly been identified by Pingree and on pages 18-19 of his edition of PS and
   variants.
   i. G. Thibaut, 'Notes from Varāha Mihira's Pañcasiddhāntikā', Jl. of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 53 (1884) 259-93.
   ii. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Original Sūrya-siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 45-54.
   iii. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Romaka Siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890), 133-42.
   iv. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Pañcasiddhāntikā', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 439-40.
   v. J. Burgess, 'The Romaka Siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 284-85.
   vi. J. Burgess, 'The sines and arcs in the Pañcasiddhāntikā', Indian Antiquary, 20 (1891) 228.
   vii. M.P. Kharegat, 'On the interpretation of certain passages in the Pañcha Siddhāntikā of Varāhamihira, an old his-
   torical work' Jl. of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 19 (1895-97) 109-41.
   viii. K.S. Shukla, 'On three stanzas from Pañcasiddhāntikā,' Gaṇita, 5 (1954) 129-36.
   T.S. Kuppanna Sastri
   ix. 'The Vāsiṣṭha Sun and Moon in Varāhamihira's Pañcasiddhāntikā', Jl. of Or. Research, Madras, 25 (1955-56)
   19-41.
   x. 'Some misinterpretations and omissions in Thibaut and Sudhakara Dvivedi in the PS of VM', Vishweshvaranand
   Indological Journal, 11 (1973) 107-18.
   xi. 'The epoch of the Romaka Siddhānta in the PS and the epoch longitudes of the Sun and Moon the Vāsiṣṭha
   Siddhānta', Indian Jl. of Hist. of Science, 13 (1978) 151-58.
   xii. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Venus in the PS of VM', Collected Papers of T.S. Kuppanna Sastry, Tirupati, 1989, pp. 141-47.
   xiii. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Jupiter and Saturn in the PS', Collected Papers, pp. 148-68.
   xiv. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Mars in the PS of VM', Collected Papers, pp. 169-87.
   xv. 'The epoch-constants of the Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa star-planets', Collected Papers, pp. 201-5.
   xvi. 'Saurasiddhānta of PS : Planetary constants and computation', Collected Papers, pp. 206-40.
   xvii. 'Pañcasiddhāntikā XVIII. 68-81 : An interpolation', Collected Papers, pp. 241-54.