APPENDIX VI

SUBJECT INDEX

Abhra, 24 Adar, 24 Adhikamāsa, 17 Ādityadāsa, xxviii Agastya, xxix Agastyodaya, xxix, 278-81 Agni, 24 Agrā, 113-14, 126, 131, 133, 135, 136 Ahargaṇa, xxvii, 241, 243 Aharmāna, xxvii, 34-35, 51-52, 246-47 Ahurmazd, 24 Aja, 24 Ākṣadṛkkarma, 143, 148, 150, 351 Akṣakṣetras, 129 Akṣāṃśa, 267-68 Ākṣavalana, 184, 185 Alexandria, 10, 288 Almagest, 10 Amordad, 24 Amplitude, 114, 126, 131 Anala, 24 Aneran, 24 Aṅgiras, 4 Anna, 24 Anuvakra, 334, 335 Anuvarṇana, 240 Anuvatsara, 242 Apamaṇḍala, 236-38 Ardhakapālayantra, 271 Ārdharātrika (rātra)-pakṣa, 4, 17, 197, 200, 209, 210, 289, 293, 294, 311 Ardibahesht, 24 Arhat, 250 Arkāgrā, 131 Armillary sphere, 272-73 Aruṇa, 4 Āryabhaṭa, xxvii, 17, 92, 196, 197, 198, 200, 210, 252, 289, 311 Āryabhaṭīya, xxvii, xxviii, 3, 5, 10, 26, 42, 44, 59, 60, 61, 62, 196, 198, 205, 210, 223, 289, 292, 299, 371 Āryabhaṭīya-bhāṣya, xviii Ascending node, 67 Ascensional differences, 261-62 Ashisvang, 24 Ashtad, 24 Asman, 24 Astronomer, bad, 74; qualifications of, 112 Astronomical observation, 257-58 Asura, 248, 249, 251 Ativakra, 334, 335 Atri, 4 Audayika-pakṣa, 293 Avan, 24 Avanti, xxi, 353. See also Ujjain Āyana-dṛkkarma, 143, 150, 351 Ayanāṃśa, 68, 73 Āyana-valana, 164 Babylonian astronomy, 316 Babylonians, 291 ‘Bāhu’, 126 Baladeva, 24 Bālava, 57 Banaras, 51, 52, 53 See also Vārāṇasī ‘Base’, 126, 132, 135 Baudhāyana, 139 Bava, 57 Behram, 24 Bhadrāśva-varṣa, 290 Bhadraviṣṇu, 71 Bhadra (viṣṭi), 57 Bhagola, 85-87 Bhārata-varṣa, 290 Bhāskara I, 4, 62, 129 Bhāskara II, 118, 129, 207 261 Bhaṭṭotpala, 4, 10, 179, 187, 244, 292, 293, 301, 310. See also Utpala Bhau Daji, 10 Bhava, 24 Bhoga-rekhā, 272 Bhṛgu, 4 Bhūbhramaṇa, 249-50 ‘Bhuja’, 131, 132, 133, 143, 144, 145, 146 Bhujāntara, 54, 209 Bhūmi, 24 Bhūtasaṅkhyā, 372 Bīja correction of VM for planets, 299 Bimbamāna, 189-90, 215-16 Brahmā, 4, 5, 24 Brahmagupta, xxvii, xxviii, 4, 5, 196, 197, 289 Brahman, 24 Brahmasiddhānta, 5 Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, xxvii, xxviii, 3, 5, 60, 70, 293 Bṛhadyātrā, xxix Bṛhadyogayātrā, xxix Bṛhajjātaka, xxviii, xxix, 286 Bṛhatsaṃhitā, xxviii, xxix, 3, 4, 10, 17, 22, 62 68, 179, 293, 354, 371 Budhacāra, 340 Budhasphuṭa, 342-60 Burgess, J., xix Caitra-pakṣa, 44 Cakrayantra, 272 Calendar reform, 73 Candracchāyā, 123-25