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

INTRODUCTION XIX reason that they have mostly been documented by Pingree in his edition of the PS and so can be referred to therefrom.¹ 3. Presentation of the Text While the generally accepted conventions of critical editing of Indic texts are duly followed in the present edition, attention might be drawn to certain methodologies which are stressed herein, in view of the technical nature of the text, the defective nature of the manuscripts and the tentative- ness of many of the emendations and textual changes effected in the two earlier editions. i. On account of the inadequacies of the copyists of the parent manuscripts and also due to deficiencies in the parent manuscripts themselves, some emendations have to be done in the edited text. However special care has been taken in this edition to indicate such emendations by placing them within curved brackets; square brackets are used to enclose fillings of apparent omissions or newly suggested readings. Doubtful suggestions are marked by an interrogation mark.

1. Studies mentioned in this footnote have mostly been identified by Pingree and on pages 18-19 of his edition of PS and variants. i. G. Thibaut, 'Notes from Varāha Mihira's Pañcasiddhāntikā', Jl. of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 53 (1884) 259-93. ii. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Original Sūrya-siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 45-54. iii. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Romaka Siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890), 133-42. iv. S.B. Dikshit, 'The Pañcasiddhāntikā', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 439-40. v. J. Burgess, 'The Romaka Siddhānta', Indian Antiquary, 19 (1890) 284-85. vi. J. Burgess, 'The sines and arcs in the Pañcasiddhāntikā', Indian Antiquary, 20 (1891) 228. vii. M.P. Kharegat, 'On the interpretation of certain passages in the Pañcha Siddhāntikā of Varāhamihira, an old his- torical work' Jl. of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 19 (1895-97) 109-41. viii. K.S. Shukla, 'On three stanzas from Pañcasiddhāntikā,' Gaṇita, 5 (1954) 129-36. T.S. Kuppanna Sastri ix. 'The Vāsiṣṭha Sun and Moon in Varāhamihira's Pañcasiddhāntikā', Jl. of Or. Research, Madras, 25 (1955-56) 19-41. x. 'Some misinterpretations and omissions in Thibaut and Sudhakara Dvivedi in the PS of VM', Vishweshvaranand Indological Journal, 11 (1973) 107-18. xi. 'The epoch of the Romaka Siddhānta in the PS and the epoch longitudes of the Sun and Moon the Vāsiṣṭha Siddhānta', Indian Jl. of Hist. of Science, 13 (1978) 151-58. xii. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Venus in the PS of VM', Collected Papers of T.S. Kuppanna Sastry, Tirupati, 1989, pp. 141-47. xiii. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Jupiter and Saturn in the PS', Collected Papers, pp. 148-68. xiv. 'The Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa Mars in the PS of VM', Collected Papers, pp. 169-87. xv. 'The epoch-constants of the Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa star-planets', Collected Papers, pp. 201-5. xvi. 'Saurasiddhānta of PS : Planetary constants and computation', Collected Papers, pp. 206-40. xvii. 'Pañcasiddhāntikā XVIII. 68-81 : An interpolation', Collected Papers, pp. 241-54.