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Bhāsvatīkaraṇa

matsunami_272

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A textbook on astronomy authored by Śatananda Ācarya, based on Varāhamihira’s summary of Lāṭadeva’s recension of the Sūryasiddhānta by Āryabhaṭṭa I (fifth–sixth centuries CE), which helped to popularize it throughout northern and eastern India (Pingree 1981). (Sources: SAMHiTA) Name of the scribe is Indra..bhā? but the full name is undecipherable due to colophon folio being torn.

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