सिद्धान्तशिरोमणि: गणिताध्याय (भास्कराचार्य - ग्रहगणित, मध्यमाधिकार व स्पष्टाधिकार सटीक)

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(b) It is not clear what places are indicated by (5) and (6)
cited above (c) In some works Māhishmatī and Ujjain are
used synonymously. (8) is not clear. Regarding (9) there
is one pattasīva near Rajahmundry but S'rī pati does not
seem to have meant it. Again (10) is not clear, Regard-
ing (11) it is to be noted that the place is now pronounced
(probably mis-pronounced) as Sthānes'wara. If (12) means
the Himalaya mountain, there is not much meaning to say
that it lies on the primary meridian; only a cross-section
of it could lie there upon. The entire mountain extends
from west to East over more than a thousand miles.
Verse 3. To find the correction known as Desāntara.
The distance between two places on the same latitude
multiplied by the daily motion of a planet and divided by
the rectified circumference is a correction subtractive in
the east and additive in the west of the primary meridian
in the planetary position obtained.
Comm. In Hindu Astronomy the mean planetary
positions are first calculated for the Sun-rise at the primary
meridian. Now suppose a place lies to the east of this meri-
dian. Then the Sun-rise at the place happens to occur
earlier than on the primary meridian. Hence the correc-
tion in the mean computed position of the planet is nega-
tive if the position were to be calculated for the local Sun-
rise. If the place happens to be on the western side of the
primary meridian the reverse holds good i.e. the correction
is to be additive. The amount of the correction is the
amount of the motion of the planet in between the two
Sun-rises. Let the planet move an arc equal to δm per day
i.e. it moves δm when the earth rotates once about her
axis. The time between the two Sun-rises above is the
time by which the local meridian is carried through the
distance between the locality and the primary meridian's
point of inter-section with the latitudinal line or what
is the same through the arc of the rectified circumfer-
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