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

INTRODUCTION XVII corrupt. The numbering of the verses is also erratic. Several verses are broken in their middle and verse numbers are interposed. At times the last line of a verse is continued with the beginning let- ters of the next verse, entailing at times, the beginnings and ends being half-words. (see III. 1 and 2). The manuscript seems to be the handiwork of a good-handed scribe from a highly corrupt orig- inal. Corrections by a modern hand in lighter ink is seen at places. Pingree suspects that "this manuscript seems to be a copy of B – perhaps that used by Thibaut and Dvivedin." (Introduction, p.20). B₃. Ms. No. 7165 of the Oriental Institute, Baroda. This manuscript in 33 folios contains the complete work. A post-colophonic statement says that it was copied in Saṁ,. 1928/śaka 1793 (A.D. 1872) by Uttamarāma Durlabharāma, a resident of Amadāvāda (Ahmedabad). The writing is read- able but corrupt readings persist. Verse numbers are written for the first chapter, but not for the later chapters. Numbers expressed in the verses are written also in digits in many places. A few more manuscripts of Pañcasiddhāntikā are known to exist (or to have existed) but could not be used for the present edition. They are :

1. Ms. No. 288 of the Bombay University. This is at present missing in the Library. Pingree has used this manuscript. In 32 folios it contains the full text of PS. It was copied in Saṁ. 1928, corres- ponding to AD. 1871, by Nāthurāma Pārika.
2. Ms. No. 6288 of the India Office, London, (Buhler 268) described in the A Catalogue of Skt. and Pkt. Mss. in the India Office Library, vol. II by A.B. Keith. This is a copy of our Ms. A₁, copied in Saṁ 1936, Śaka 1802 (A.D. 1879). We have not used it nor has Pingree. About still other manuscripts, Pingree states : "Besides these seven manuscripts, there existed in 1890 the manuscript belonging to J.B. Modak of Thāṇā which was copied from B (our B₁), and we know of a manuscript (no. 6674) of the Pañcasiddhāntikā in the Ānandāśrama in Poona. The man- uscripts, recorded as the property of Sjt. Pushpachandra Sarma Daloi of Helach in Assam and of the Arsha Library in Vijayanagara (no. 506), probably contain the Bhāsvatī of Śatānanda, which is sometimes confused with our text." (Introduction, p. 21). C. The emended text of Thibaut-Sudhakara Dvivedi, as printed in the right hand columns of their edition. On this Thibaut says (Introduction, pp. lx-lxi): "The present edition of the Pañcasiddhāntikā is founded on two manuscripts belonging to the Bombay Government. The text of the better one of these two Manuscripts is reproduced in the left hand columns of our edition, while the foot notes give all the more important diffe- rent readings from the other Manuscript... the emended one as given in the right hand col- umns of the edition. "What, in the attempt to reconstruct the text of an astronomical or mathematical work, has chiefly to be kept in view, is of course, to arrive at rules which are capable of being proved mathematically. This consideration has, in more than one place, led us to introduce changes even where such appeared hardly to be required by the external form of the traditional text." Notwithstanding the wild emendations which Thibaut-Sudhakar Dvivedi have made, at times, their emended readings have been recorded as C in the footnotes of the present edition. D. The edition, Translation and Notes of TS by O. Neugebauer and D. Pingree, (2 vols., Kopenhagen, 1970). Pingree edits and translates the PS, while Neugebauer offers the Notes. All