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

Chapter Seventeen SAURA-SIDDHĀNTA — TRUE PLANETS १७. सप्तदशोऽध्यायः सौरसिद्धान्तः — ताराग्रहाणां स्फुटीकरणम् As stated earlier, the computation of the Saura star-planets is continued in ch. XVII, the topics treated being, the True planets, their heliacal risings and their latitudes. [स्फुटकर्म] शीघ्राख्योऽर्कोऽन्येषां भौमादीनां तु परिधयो द्विगुणाः । 'पक्षस्वरा' (श्च खं षड्यमाः)' 'खकृता' श्चकुजादीनाम् ॥ ३ ॥ Epicycles of the planets

1. For the other planets (i.e. other than Mercury and Venus, viz., for Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the Sun is their Śīghra. The epicycles of equation of the apsis of Mars etc. are twice, 35°, 14°, 16°, 7°, and 30°, (i.e., of Mars 70°, of Mercury 28°, of Jupiter 32°, of Venus 14° and of Saturn 60°.) Note 1. I follow TS's emendation in pañcatriṁśanmanavaḥ. But I read surāḥ as svarāḥ and not śarāḥ, like TS because svarāḥ is nearer the given reading surāḥ, and also 14° is the epicycle given in the Ārdharātrika-pakṣa etc. Five mātrās are wanting in the last foot, and it must be supplied with some such words as bhāgāḥ, as all numbers are already given. But TS make it ṣaḍyutās-triṁśāḥ and, strangely enough, translate it as 24, confusing the addition mentioned by themselves for subtrac- tion. (However, on page XXIII of the Introduction Thibaut gives the correct 30° × 2 = 60°.) Note 2. The first foot is to be read with verses 7 and 8 of chap. XVI where the śīghra of Mercury and Venus have already been given. Properly speaking, the matter in the foot should have been given in chap. XVI. 'रस-भव-वसु-वेदा-र्का' विंशतिगुणिताः कुजस्य दशको (ना) : । मन्दगति नाम (?) भागाः कुजबुधगुरुशुक(सौ)राणाम् ॥ २ ॥
2. 6, 11, 8, 4, 12 multiplied by 20, Mars's being less by 10°, (i.e. 110°, 220°, 160°, 80°, and 240°) are the apogee positions of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. 1a. B. र्को d. A. सुरास्त्रिंशाः || B. ष्ट्यः सुरास्त्रिंशा ||; C. ष्ट्यः b. ०नां नु परि; D. तु [मन्द] परिधयः [स्युः] | शराः षड्युतास्त्रिंशाः ||; c. D. द्विगुणाःपञ्च० A.त्रिंशत्सनवो D. ष्ट्यः स्वस्त्रिंशा [श्च] ||