• inaccurate, as Varāhamihira must have lived after Aryabhata (born 476 CE), whose work he refers to. The particulars of the date mentioned by Varāhamihira - Shukla...
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  • Pancha-siddhantika (category Works by Varāhamihira)
    probably the year in which Varāhamihira composed Pancha-Siddhantaka or began planning it. The writings of both Varāhamihira and his commentator Utpala...
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  • Bṛhat Saṃhitā (category Works by Varāhamihira)
    Bṛhat-saṃhitā is a 6th-century Sanskrit-language encyclopedia compiled by Varāhamihira in present-day Ujjain, India. Besides the author's area of expertise—astrology...
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    late Gupta era, in the 5th to 6th centuries. The Pañcasiddhāntikā by Varāhamihira (505 CE) approximates the method for determination of the meridian direction...
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    Garga, Varāhamihira and Kalhana, place the Bharata war 653 years after the Kali Yuga epoch, corresponding to 2449 BCE. According to Varāhamihira's Bṛhat...
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  • Akbar's Court". The Modern Review. 74 (1–6): 129–133. A.M. Shastri (1991). Varāhamihira and His Times. Kusumanjali. p. 3. OCLC 28644897. Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi;...
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    constituting it a big volume of which only three have been decoded. Varāhamihira's (505–587 AD) Brihat Samhita ("large compilation") is an encyclopedic...
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  • Motilal Banarsidass. p. 87. ISBN 978-81-208-0805-8. A.M. Shastri (1991). Varāhamihira and His Times. Kusumanjali. pp. 174–189. OCLC 28644897. v t e v t e...
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  • work of other astronomers including Aryabhata I, Latadeva, Pradyumna, Varahamihira, Simha, Srisena, Vijayanandin and Vishnuchandra. In the year 628, at...
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  • ISBN 9788120813960. Retrieved 2015-04-30. Varāhamihira (1884). "The Bṛihat Saṃhitâ of Varaha Mihira". Varāhamihira (1884). "The Bṛihat Saṃhitâ of Varaha Mihira"...
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    Jagannatha Samrat Nilakantha Somayaji Śrīpati Sridhara Gangesha Upadhyaya Varāhamihira Sankara Variar Virasena Modern Srinivasa Ramanujan Satyendra Nath Bose...
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    painting. The Gupta period produced scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Vishnu Sharma, and Vatsyayana. The Gupta period marked a watershed of...
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    and mathematicians of India such are Varahamihira are considered to be the descendants of the Magas. Varahamihira specifies that installation and consecration...
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  • (approximate date) Dynod Bwr, king of Hen Ogledd (approximate date) Varāhamihira, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 587) Saint Yared, Axumite composer...
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  • Jagannatha Samrat Nilakantha Somayaji Śrīpati Sridhara Gangesha Upadhyaya Varāhamihira Sankara Variar Virasena Modern Srinivasa Ramanujan Satyendra Nath Bose...
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  • Vatsyayana must have lived after him. On the other hand, another author, Varahamihira, in the eighteenth chapter of his "Brihatsanhita", discusses of the science...
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  • are some Raja yogas described by texts which simply cannot occur, e.g. Varahamihira states that if exalted Mercury occupies lagna, Venus occupies the 10th...
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  • of the 6th-century astrologer-astronomer Varāhamihira. Utpala dates two of his commentaries on Varāhamihira's works to the year 888 of the Shaka kāla....
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    such as Kālidāsa (c. 4th century CE), Sushruta (c. 3rd century CE), and Varāhamihira (6th century CE) mention its use for manuscripts. The bark of Betula...
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    Aries, including the stars β and γ Arietis. The name aśvinī is used by Varahamihira (6th century). The older name of the asterism, found in the Atharvaveda...
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    periodically. This was the view expressed in the 6th century by the astronomers Varāhamihira and Bhadrabahu, and the 10th-century astronomer Bhaṭṭotpala listed the...
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    Jagannatha Samrat Nilakantha Somayaji Śrīpati Sridhara Gangesha Upadhyaya Varāhamihira Sankara Variar Virasena Modern Srinivasa Ramanujan Satyendra Nath Bose...
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  • Drekkena is generally examined to ascertain the nature of death even though Varahamihira relates this drekkena with the disposal of the dead which falls on the...
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  • were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, and Varāhamihira. The decimal number system in use today was first recorded in Indian...
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    Hermetic writings, by the Indian astrologer Varāhamihira, in the Picatrix, and in Japanese writings. Varāhamihira's images of the decans was influenced by...
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    Aryabhatta, the 6th century Romaka by Latadeva and Panca Siddhantika by Varahamihira, the 7th century Khandakhadyaka by Brahmagupta and the 8th century Sisyadhivrddida...
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  • Paleo-Siberians Samoyeds Tungus MEROË AKSUM ◁ ▷ Scholars of this period include Varāhamihira and Aryabhata, who is believed to be the first to consider zero as a...
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    and subsequently reformed by astronomers such as Āryabhaṭa (AD 499), Varāhamihira (6th century) and Bhāskara II (12th century). The Hebrew calendar is...
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  • Rajasthan. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10789-2. Shastri, Ajay Mitra (1991). Varāhamihira and His Times. Kusumanjali Book World. Sagar, Krishna Chandra (1992)...
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