VARARUCHI1:
PERIOD:4TH CENTURY CE.
VARARUCHI 1 HAS BEEN ONE OF THE EARLIEST HINDU ASTRONOMERS LIVED IN KERALA.
HE WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE THE AUTHOR OF CHANDRAVAKYAS (MOON SENTENCES),A SET OF NUMBERS SPECIFYING THE LONGITUDES MOON AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS OF TIME.
HIS CHANDRAVAKYAS IS A SET OF 248 NUMBERS FOR CALCULATING THE POSITION OF SUN AND MOON.
THESE NUMBERS ARE CODED IN THE KATAPAYADI SYSTEM OF NUMERATION AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT VARARUCHI HIMSELF WAS THE INVENTOR OF THIS SYSTEM OF NUMERATION.
VARARUCHI'S NAME APPEARS IN A VERSE LISTING THE NINE GEMS (NAVARATHNAS) IN THE COURT OF ONE KING VIKRAMA.
VARARUCHI (TAMILNADU) :
IN TAMILNAU REGION OF SOUTH INDIA ANOTHER SCHOLAR IS ALSO KNOWN AS VARARUCHI (13TH CENTURY CE) WHO IS TOO KNOWN AS HINDU ASTRONOMER.
HE IS THE AUTHOR OF WELL-KNOWN VAKYAKARANA WHICH IS THE SOURCE BOOK OF VAKYA PANCHANGA, POPULAR IN SOUTH INDIA,ESPECIALLY IN TAMIL RELIGION.THIS TREATISE WAS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED AROUND 1282 CE,PRESUMABLY IN KANCHI, TAMILNADU.
THE TREATISE IS ALSO KNOWN AS VAKYA PANCHADHYAYI AND IS BASED ON THE WORKS OF HARIDATTA (C.650 CE) OF KERALA.
IN 5 CHAPTERS VAKYAKARANA DEALS WITH ALL ASPECTS OF ASTRONOMY REQUIRED FOR THE PREPARATION OF HINDU ALMANAC.
CHAPTER 1 : COMPUTATION OF SUN,MOON AND MOON'S NODES
CHAPTER 2 : COMPUTATION OF PLANETS
CHAPTER 3 : PROBLEMS INVOLVING TIME,POSITION, DIRECTION AND OTHER PRELIMINARIES LIKE THE PRECESSION OF EQUINOXES.
CHAPTER 4 : COMPUTATION OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES
CHAPTER 5 : COMPUTATION OF PLANETS AND STARS.
Hi , Thanks for the info, could you share the Book consist of those chapters.
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