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

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PREFACE V
CONTENTS IX
INTRODUCTION XIII
Introductory – Source Material – Presentation of the Text – Translation – Notes – Division of
Pañcasiddhāntikā – Ch. XVIII of Pañcasiddhāntikā – The Five Siddhāntas in PS : Their distribu-
tion – Content analysis of the Pañcasiddhāntikā – Depiction of the Siddhāntas in the PS – Compara-
tive study of the Siddhāntas -- Varāhamihira : His life and works.
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Ch.I. INTRODUCTION
OF THE WORK
Aim of the Work (verses 1-2) 1
The Five Schools of Astronomy (3-4) 4
Contents of the Work (5-7) 5
Days from Epoch : Romaka (8-10) 6
Days from Epoch : Pauliśa (11-13) 11
Yuga of the Sun and the Moon: Romaka
and Saura (14-16) 15
Lord of the year (17-18) 18
Lord of the Month (19) 20
Lord of the Horā etc. (20-25) 20
Names of the 30 days of the Parsi months 24
Ch.II. VĀSIṢṬHA-SIDDHĀNTA :
PLANETARY COMPUTATIONS ETC.
Introductory 25
True Sun (1) 25
True Moon (2-4) 27
Nakṣatra and Tithi (7) 33
Day-time (8) 34
Gnomonic Shadow (9-10) 35
Lagna from shadow and vice versa (11-13) 37
Ch.III. PAULIŚA-SIDDHĀNTA :
PLANETARY COMPUTATION ETC.
Introductory 40
True Sun (1-3) 40
True Motion of Moon (5) 45
Equation of the centre (5-9) 47
Cara or Oblique ascension (10) 48
Day-time (11-12) 50
Deśāntara (13-14) 51
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Local Sunset time (15) 53
Nakṣatra computation (16) 54
Sun’s daily motion (17) 56
Karaṇas (18-19) 57
Vyatīpāta and Vaidhṛta (20-22) 58
Ṣaḍaśīti-puṇyakāla (23-24) 64
Solstices (25) 65
Saṅkrānti-kāla (26) 65
Tridinaspṛg-yoga (27) 66
Rāhu (Node) (28-29) 67
Moon’s latitude (30-31) 69
Defect in Bhadraviṣṇu (32) 71
Defect in Pādāditya (33) 71
Defect in Romaka (34-37) 71
Ch.IV. THREE PROBLEMS : TIME,
PLACE AND DIRECTION
Introductory 76
Table of R Sines (1-15) 76
Declination of the Sun and the
Moon (16-18) 87
Gnomonic shadow (19) 90
Latitude from Shadow (20-21) 91
Sine zenith distance (22) 95
Sine Co-latitude and Day-diameter
(23-25) 96
Cara or Oblique Ascension (26) 98
Latitude from Cara (27-28) 100
Rt. ascensional difference (29-30) 102
Rising Signs (31) 104
Time to reach the Prime vertical (32-34) 106
Great gnomon (Sama-śaṅku) and its
shadow (35) 110