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

VI For, the शत्रुञ्जयमाहात्म्य (Satrunjayamahatmya) mentions a king विक्रमादित्य (Vikramaditya) as having ascended the throne in 544 A. D. Probably वराह (Varaha) and this neo Kalidasa were contemporaries of this Vikrama. Similarly अमरसिंह (Amarasimha) who is identified with अमरदेव (Amaradeva) that built the Buddha Gaya temple in about 500 A. D. is said to be a contemporary of our author. This too will lead to the above conclusion of his date. Many scholars from the days of Colebrook, Davis, Sir William Jones, Weber and Lassen have done much research work on Varahamihira. (According to Sage Garga, the Science of Astronomy- cum-Astrology was created by the creator himself for the sake of the twice-born as ancillary to the Vedas. It was handed down to Garga by Brahman, and from him, other sages got it and thus its knowledge was dissem- nated throughout the world ) It is but right that we draw here the attention of the readers to the erroneous judgment of many a wes- tern orientalist regarding Astrology and Greek influence. On the other hand, (it is the Greeks who freely borrowed or learnt the various scientific truths from the Aryans of' India. Clement of Alexandria calls Pythagoras, the celebrated Greek, a pupil of the Brahmanas. The Swami Vivekananda, the great spiritual and intellectual giant of modern India, has ably refuted the false theories of the Western Orientalists. He says :— “ There may be, it is true some similarity between the Greek and Indian terms in astronomy and so forth, but the westerners have ignored the direct Sanskrit etymology and . . sought for some far-fetched etymology from the Greek. That