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From the Moon's apogee (§ 58) 



node 



Sun's apogee 



Venus 



Mars 



Moon 



Jupiter 



Saturn 



Mars's aphel. 

 Length of the year 



Sum = 7306 

 which being divided by 10, the number of results, 

 we get 730,6 — or 73 1 years nearly for the age of the 

 Surya Siddhdnta : which differs but about five years 

 from the age deduced from the length of the year 

 only. 



7 1. But independent of all calculations vi^e 

 know from Hindu books, the age in which the Siirya 

 Siddhdnta was written j and by whom. In the 

 commentary on the Bhasvotiy it is declared, that 

 Vara'ha was the author of the Surya Siddhdnta, 

 The Bhaisvofi was written in the year 1021 o{ Sakay 

 by one Sotanund, who, according to Hindu ac- 

 counts, was a pupil of Vara'ha, and under whose 

 directions he himself acknowledges he wrote that 

 work. Consequently, Vara'ha must have been 

 then aUve, or else a very short time before it : which 

 agrees as near as possibly can be, with the age above 

 deduced; for, the Bhasvoti in A. D. i799, will be 

 exactly 700 years old. 



72. That Vara'ha, was the real author of the 

 Surya Siddhdnta^ is still further confirmed by one ot 

 his works in my possession, entitled Jutok Arnob ; 

 the mean age of which comes out by computation 

 739 years. In this work, as in the Surya Siddhdnta, 



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