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intercalary months 721384201-79—total 2419187401-79—num- 
ber of lunar days 725759622053-7, and the omitted tithis are 
11356023172°2; and deducting the latter from the former we 
get 71440359881:5: multiply this number by 800 and divide the 
result by 292207, when we get 1955883600 without a remainder. 
According to Varaha Mihira, therefore, Saka 421 was the year 
when there was no ayanamsa. Varaha Mihira must have 
adopted Aryyabhata and Lallacarya’s ideas on the point. 
Aryabhata says :— 
ageciai afe Feat Balateaas FATT: | 
afuat fanfarsieee aa aHatsatat: | 
ase vata: | seaaafaoa: | afer we 
Mfastauaa wafaHatial Gea watsatar BAT SE | 
Lalla says :— 
Ws wafaeres wfMatsaTs: 
WUFT aa faaeaae: ase: 
Lata y: a yeta for faater 
=u fausqgeassustfana | sare 
There must have been, therefore, some very important 
reason for Varaha Mihira’s choosing Saka 427 as the start- 
ing-point of his calculations, in preference to Saka 421, a 
date of such importance for Hindu astronomy and so near to 
the one chosen by him. Varaha Mihira wanted to commemo- 
rate this date, by making it the starting-point of his calculations, 
and the only possible event in his life which could have happened 
in that year was his own birth. There is no reason to doubt 
the genuineness of Amaraja’s statement that Varaha Mihira died 
in A.D. 587. Varaha Mibira, therefore, lived to the good old age 
of 82 years Varaha Mihira has not like other Indian astrono- 
birth, and we have no reason for disputing their conclusion. 
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