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

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खचतुष्करदार्णवाः, कुजार्किगुरुशीघ्राणां भगणाः पूर्वयायिनाम्, इन्‍दो
रसाग्नित्रित्रीषुसप्त भूधरमार्गणाः '' i,e. ‘In a yuga, the Sun the
Mercury and Venus perform 432000 sidereal revolutions as
well as the Śīghrōcchas of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn,
whereas the Moon performs 57753336 revolutions' (It may
be recalled here that the Mercury and Venus are oscillating
about the mean position of the Sun; also it will be noticed
that the Sun playing the part of the Śīghrōcchas in the
case of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, their Śīghrōcchas are
also deemed as making the same number of revolutions as
the Sun. In as much as the Śīghrōcchas in the case of
Mercury and Venus are looked upon as different from the
planets, so in the case of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn also the
Sighrocchas are taken as different Divine entities though
coinciding with the Sun in position). However smaller
periods could be conceived as integral L.C.M's of the side-
real revolutions of the Sun and the Moon, but a presump-
tion sponsored by a sense of orderliness in the Cosmos,
that the planets should all have been started from the Zero
point of the Zodiac, made the integral L.C.M. to be of
such a dimension as 4320000 solar years in which period
the other planets also would have made an integral num-
ber of sidereal revolutions. Here in this point the tradi-
tional Hindu astronomers place their faith in the Āgama,
which said that the planets were all started at the Zero-
point of the Zodiac in the beginning of the yuga and were
ordained to return to the same point at the close of the
yuga. Even a rational astronomer like Bhāskara, appa-
rently placing faith in the Āgama, while adducing a proof
in the name of Bhagaṇōpapatti, states that after obtaining
the mean daily motions of the planets, calculates them
for the period of a Kalpa taking it on trust that the planets
were started at the initial point of the Zodiac in the begin-