వరాహమిహిరుడు: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు
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{VARAHAMIHIRA,ALSO CALLED MIHIRA,WAS AN ASTRONOMER -MATHEMATICIAN,BORN IN UJJAIN.
VARAHAMIHIRA'S PICTURE FOUND IN THE INDIAN PARLIMENT ALONG SIDE ARYBHATTA'S,OF WHOM HE WAS FOLLOWER.
HE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE ONE OF THE NINE JEWELS(NAVARATNAS) OF COURT OF LEGENDARY KING VIKRAMADITYA.
VARAHAMIHIRA DISCOVERED PASCAL'S TRIANGLE AND WORKED ON MAGIC SQUARES .HIS MOST FAMOUS TREATISE IS PANCHA SIDDHANTIKA'(575AD).}
Varahamihira's main work is the book Pañcasiddhāntikā (or Pancha-Siddhantika, "[Treatise] on the Five [Astronomical] Canons) dated ca. 575 CE gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost. The work is a treatise on mathematical astronomy and it summarises five earlier astronomical treatises, namely the Surya Siddhanta, Romaka Siddhanta, Paulisa Siddhanta, Vasishtha Siddhanta and Paitamaha Siddhantas. It is a compendium of Vedanga Jyotisha as well as Hellenistic astronomy (including Greek, Egyptian and Roman elements).[1] He was the first one to mention in his work Pancha Siddhantika that the ayanamsa, or the shifting of the equinox is 50.32 seconds.
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