TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations |
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I. Dasagitika or the Ten Giti Stanzas |
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A. Invocation |
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B. System of Expressing Numbers by Letters of Alphabet |
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1. Revolutions of Sun, Moon, Earth, and Planets in a yuga |
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2. Revolutions of Apsis of Moon, Conjunctions of Planets, and Node of Moon in a yuga; Time and Place from Which Revolutions Are To Be Calculated |
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3. Number of Manus in a kalpa; Number of yugas in Period of a Manu; Part of kalpa Elapsed up to Bharata Battle |
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4. Divisions of Circle; Circumference of Sky and Orbits of Planets in yojanas; Earth Moves One kala in a prana; Orbit of Sun One-sixtieth That of Asterisms |
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5. Length of yojana; Diameters of Earth, Sun, Moon, Meru, and Planets; Number of Years in a yuga |
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6. Greatest Declination of Ecliptic; Greatest Deviation of Moon and Planets from Ecliptic; Measure of a nr |
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7. Positions of Ascending Nodes of Planets, and
of Apsides of Sun and Planets |
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8-9. Dimensions of Epicycles of Apsides and Conjunctions of Planets; Circumference of Earth-Wind |
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10. Table of Sine-Diferences |
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C. Colophon |
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