बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

196 : बृहत्संहितायाम् [Adh. XIX. Sl. 1-3 Garga, Parasara, etc., have known all about these and that Varahamihira perfected all these things in his Samhita as promised, knowing also that Yavanacharya also has known all about these. It may not be out of place to bring to the notice of the readers . that Maharshi Parasara, the father of the celebrated Vyasa, popu- larly known as वेदव्यास-Vedavyasa, existed far before the advent of Kali (कलि), that is, the fourth millennium B. C., and that for a sage of this repute, it is not correct to conclude that Parasara had to learn everything from the West. What I want to impress is that our ancient sages who were founders of the Six Angas (षडङ्ग) of the Vedas, did not require any foreign agency to put them in the way, but that they were in themselves, each a mine of knowledge. Further, to support my statement that Indian culture existed earlier than the Greeks, I quote below the following line from Raghuvamsa:—. यवनीमुखपद्मानां सेहे मधुमदं न सः ॥ सर्वत्र भूर्विरलसस्ययुता वनानि दैवाद्धिभक्षयिषुदंष्ट्रिसमावृतानि । नद्यश्च नैव हि पयः प्रचुरं स्रवन्ति रुग्भेषजानि न तथातिबलान्वितानि ॥१॥ तीक्ष्णं तपत्यदितिजः शिशिरेऽपि काले नात्यम्बुदा जलमुचोऽचलसन्निकाशाः । नष्टप्रभर्क्षगणशीतकरं नभश्च सीदन्ति तापसकुलानि सगोकुलानि ॥२॥ हस्त्यश्वपत्तिम्मदसद्मबलैरुपैता बाणासनासिमुशलातिशयाश्चरन्ति । घ्नन्तो नृपा युधि नृपानुचरैश्च देशान् संवत्सरे दिनकरस्य दिनेऽथ मासे ॥३॥ Slokas 1-3.—The state of things in a year, month or day presided over by the Sun will be as follows : every- where, the earth is covered with very little crop, the