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354 PAÑCASIDDHĀNTIKĀ XVIII.63
the computation of Mercury by Vijayanandi, can have recourse to this section
of the manual.
63. By Varāhamihira has been seen, (i.e., written) (this karaṇa) easy to under-
stand,......................
Note 1. Verses 61 and 62 clearly close the section dealing with the star-planets. Since VM says that
he has improved on the earlier authors, he must be referring to Chapter XVI and XVII, dealing
with the Saura. His reference to his improvement on the Saura itself in the case of Jupiter must
refer to the bīja correction made by him in XVI. Indeed, his dissatisfaction with the Jupiter of the
Saura is reflected in his formula for computing Jupiter to give the years of the sixty-year Jovian
cycle, given in his Bṛhatsaṃhitā, in the chapter dealing with the motion of Bṛhaspati (Jupiter). As
for chap. XVIII, he could not have meant the Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa star-planets there as an improve-
ment, they being crude.
Note 2. Verse 63 evidently closes the Pāñcasiddhāntikā, as indicated by the Vasantatilakā metre of
the verse instead of the regular āryā metre. But unfortunately the last three feet are missing.
Perhaps it is a purposely done ‘black-out’ by a later astronomer-scribe, to add his spurious verses
64-81 in continuation (see below) and, unfortunately, only his manuscript has survived as the
archetype of the few extant manuscripts,
61a. B. आयंतकः समांसाः
b. A. छिष्णहिं०; B. छिसंध्यं हिं०; B2.3. छिसंख्यं हिं०
A.B. ०र्थं तमद्गस्फु०; C. र्थं [ततः] स्फु०;
D. ०थं [वियद्गस्फुटांशम्]
c. A.B. मिहरः
62a. A. प्रद्यम्र. B. भुमि
b. A.B. जीवै (B3. जीवे)
A. शौरयवावीजय०; B. सौरे यवविजयं
D. सौरैऽथवा विजय०
c-d. A. बुधे वनग्रास्फुट; B. छुधे च मग्रास्फुटं; D. बुधो भग्नः
स्फुटमिदं करणं भजति दृष्टं वराहमिहिरेण || ६२ ||
d. C. प्रस्फुटमिदं, om. करणं. A.B. भजतां;
D. drops the word.
63a. A.B.C. मिहरेण. B. प्रबोधां
b-d. A.B.C. gap indicated for the three
quarters of the verse.
D. Ignores the expression सुखप्रबोधं
in this verse and constitutes a new
half verse for the previous verse.
as: बुधो भग्नः स्फुटमिदं करणं भजति दृष्टं
वराहमिहिरेण || In consequence, the
numbering of verses than in A is one
less in D, hereforward.
[इति पञ्चसिद्धान्तिकायां वराहमिहिरविरचितायां
ग्रहोदयास्तो नाम अष्टादशोऽध्यायः ]
Thus ends Chapter Eighteen entitled ‘(Vāsiṣṭha-) Pauliśa-Siddhānta
— Rising and Setting of Planets’, in the Pañcasiddhāntikā composed
by Varāhamihira