पञ्चसिद्धान्तिका (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - सूर्य, रोमक, पौलिश, वासिष्ठ एवं पितामह सिद्धान्त)

III.37 III. PAULIŚA-SIDDHĀNTA 75 It must be noted here that when even the person with correct knowledge gets so much, the writer will get more. It must also be noted that only the writer of bad astronomy goes to hell, not the reader, whose sin is small. In this verse there is a jumbling of words and phrases and induction into the text extraneous words intended as commentary. The words, sphuṭagaṇitavid etc. seem to be the first half of the verse because in the first foot there are twelve and in the second eighteen syllables. Therefore what comes before that is the second half. In that, there are may syllables more than the required twenty- seven. Selecting the required words alone, we have reconstructed the third and fourth foot. For the observations of K S. Shukla on 32-37 vis-a-vis NP, see his paper ‘The PS of VM (1)’, JIHS 9 (1974) 62-76. [इति पञ्चसिद्धान्तिकायां वराहमिहिरविरचितायां पौलिशसिद्धान्तो नाम तृतीयोऽध्यायः ||]¹

1. A.B. पौलिशसिद्धान्तः; C.D. इति पौलिशसिद्धान्तः || Thus ends Chapter Three entitled ‘Pauliśa-Siddhānta: Planetary Computations etc.’ in the Pañcasiddhāntikā composed by Varāhamihira