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Suryasiddhanta's first chapter says it was given by Lord Surya to Maya

the Asura after the latter performed a great deal of tapasyaa, at the

fag end of previous Satyuga, which was slightly before 2165109 years

from now (add 52 years for excess of siddhantic year over Julioan).

According to epics and Puranas, Maya is said to be founder of Jyotisha,

vaastu shaastra, town planning, architecture, temple building, etc.

Without Maya, Veda would have been blind, because sages eulogized

Jyotisha as the eye of Veda. Hence, it is wrong to call Maya a

mlechchha. Some asuras were mlechchhas, but the ancestors of all

mlechchhas and asuras were Aryans, if we believe Puranas. Puranas say

that mlechchhas were expelled from India due to their bad conduct. In

koine Greek, the very word Europa etymologically meant " easterlies " ,

and 'European' would thus mean " those who came from the East " .

 

To moderners, Suryasiddhanta in Satyuga sounds absurd. They must find

its date somewhere in the historical period before Varaha Mihira who

eulogized Suryasiddhanta as being most clear ( " spashta " , cf.

Panchsiddhaantikaa edited by Thibaut & Sudhakar Dvivedi) of all

siddhantas, and even before Aryabhatta who is said to have written a

commentary on Suryasiddhanta which is not available. This modern view is

guided by a world view which is the dominant view of ruling elite in the

world today.

 

According to Burgess, Whitney had a firm opinion that Indians were

incapable of inventing anything, while Burgess maintained that Indian

astronomy was more ancient than Greek. But when it came to conclusions,

Burgess had no difference with Whitney. Leave aside these ideosyncratic

or culturally biased views, let us talk of facts. How can we fix the

date of composition of Suryasiddhanta ???

 

Ujjain, 3 March : Comparison of Saayana Planets :

Suryasiddhantic(Saur) and Physical (Drik)

 

AD

 

Method

 

Sun

 

Moon

 

Mars

 

Mercury

 

Jupiter

 

Venus

 

Saturn

 

382

 

Drik

 

343:33:59

 

001:39:24

 

304:06:20

 

320:29:20

 

238:48:12

 

310:08:09

 

050:58:12

 

 

 

Saur

 

344:09:44

 

002:18:18

 

306:00:04

 

317:26:27

 

236:14:05

 

307:10:43

 

058:18:51

 

482

 

Drik

 

344:18:44

 

318:25:11

 

347:52:07

 

319:15:50

 

025:16:49

 

027:27:47

 

209:22:01

 

 

 

Saur

 

344:47:48

 

319:25:52

 

350:42:50

 

324:10:33

 

021:03:18

 

025:40:02

 

214:40:16

 

582

 

Drik

 

345:03:34

 

253:57:54

 

029:03:14

 

335:51:57

 

188:46:46

 

325:47:33

 

337:17:06

 

 

 

Saur

 

345:25:49

 

258:28:12

 

031:42:36

 

343:39:19

 

185:05:00

 

322:54:50

 

342:03:42

 

682

 

Drik

 

345:48:00

 

215:27:37

 

073:50:27

 

358:38:34

 

342:03:44

 

028:07:06

 

128:39:19

 

 

 

Saur

 

346:03:50

 

214:34:27

 

076:53:20

 

000:13:16

 

338:05:47

 

031:01:54

 

138:56:21

 

782

 

Drik

 

346:33:23

 

152:21:34

 

157:55:10

 

357:25:17

 

136:30:39

 

342:28:19

 

272:56:05

 

 

 

Saur

 

346:41:49

 

154:02:50

 

165:14:47

 

350:55:52

 

132:22:37

 

340:03:29

 

276:49:23

 

882

 

Drik

 

347:18:01

 

109:07:50

 

260:33:02

 

322:29:25

 

298:43:55

 

323:44:48

 

044:58:58

 

 

 

Saur

 

347:19:46

 

107:58:29

 

261:48:04

 

320:02:06

 

295:40:57

 

335:09:06

 

051:04:16

 

982

 

Drik

 

348:02:48

 

052:09:32

 

311:52:48

 

324:01:45

 

085:44:25

 

359:21:07

 

205:23:02

 

 

 

Saur

 

347:57:41

 

052:17:24

 

312:05:43

 

328:07:58

 

081:53:55

 

357:30:27

 

209:48:18

 

1082

 

Drik

 

348:48:22

 

000:17:10

 

355:34:55

 

341:21:32

 

253:17:16

 

302:24:10

 

335:41:00

 

 

 

Saur

 

348:35:35

 

000:24:57

 

356:47:17

 

347:45:54

 

251:39:09

 

301:33:34

 

337:05:04

 

 

 

The most obvious way is to check planetary positions. If we decide that

Jupiter's position, for instance, should be the reference for which

Suryasiddhanta's dating ought to be calculated in comparison to the

value given by physical astronomy, Saturn will show disagreements with

physical astronomy by wide margins. If Saturn is fixed, some other

planet will show intolerable divergences. I have devoted a whole chapter

on this problem in my Hindi book on Suryasiddhanta which was published

in 2005 and went out of print in 2006. Table on left hand side (from my

book) shows the position of tropical planets at intervals of 100 years

during the entire epoch which was considered to be the period of

composition of Suryasiddha by scholars like Benteley or Burgess. Lower

table shows the difference between Suryasiddhantic true planets from

physical planets of modern astronomy for the period which all

Westernerers consider to be period of composition of Suryasiddhanta.

 

 

 

Comparison of Suryasiddhantic and Physical (Drik) Planets (seconds of

arc)

 

AD

 

Sun

 

Moon

 

Mars

 

Mercury

 

Jupiter

 

Venus

 

Saturn

 

382

 

-2145

 

- 2334

 

- 6824

 

+10973

 

+ 9247

 

+10646

 

-26439

 

482

 

-1744

 

- 3641

 

-10243

 

-17683

 

+15211

 

+ 6465

 

-19095

 

582

 

-1335

 

-16218

 

- 9562

 

-28042

 

+13306

 

+10363

 

-17196

 

682

 

- 950

 

+ 3190

 

-10973

 

- 5682

 

-21723

 

-10488

 

-37022

 

782

 

- 506

 

- 6076

 

-26377

 

+23365

 

+14882

 

+ 8690

 

-13998

 

882

 

- 105

 

+ 4161

 

- 4502

 

+ 8839

 

+10978

 

-41058

 

-21918

 

982

 

+ 307

 

- 472

 

- 775

 

-14773

 

+13830

 

+ 6640

 

-15916

 

1082

 

+ 767

 

- 467

 

- 4342

 

-23062

 

+ 5887

 

+ 3036

 

- 5044

 

The conclusion one can deduce from such a comparison is : there is no

period in whole history (I've checked other periods too, which cannot be

shown here due to space) for which Suryasiddhantic planetary positions

can be brought to be within tolerable margins with respect to the

planetary positions given by physical astronomy. Some people are adamant

on taking Suryasiddhantic planets as physical bodies. If this be

accepted, Suryasiddhanta must have a date for which ALL its planets,

tithis, yogas, karanas, eclipses, etc ought to conform to the findings

of physical astronomy within a margin of tolerable limits, say 1 degree

(supposing ancient Indians could not make more precise observations).

What is that date ? Please show some date for which Suryasiddhantic

planets could be made to conform to ALL physical planets. We will fail,

utterly. That is why Bentely took a resort to devious means to get a

date of 1091 AD, which is against historical evidences, as even Varaha

Mihira is known to be acquainted with Suryasiddhanta and eulogised it as

the best. Even Burgess had to say, in his commentary on Suryasiddhanta :

" planetary elements, which, when tested by the errors of position, in

the manner already explained, do not appear to have been constructed so

as to give the true sidereal position at any assignable epoch " .

 

 

 

As Varaha Mihira eulogized Suryasiddhanta as the clearest of all

siddhantas, why we should not check whether Suryasiddhantic planets

could be made to conform to physical planets at the time of Varaha

Mihira ? If we take Varaha Mihira's date as between 505-550 AD, above

tables show thT Suryasiddhantic planets had differences ranging from

-28042 " to +15211 " , ie, from -4.2 to 7.8 degrees during the century

from 482 to 582 AD (greater differences were observed in intervening

years) !! Was Varaha Mihira so dull as to neglect such huge differences

?? Above comparison is tropical. But sidereal comparison will yield

similar results, with greater differences due to +2:59':22 " difference

in ayanamsha in 499 AD. Saur ayanamsha zero in 499 AD, Drik ayanamsha

was zero in 285 AD, hence Drig ayanamsha was +3 degrees ahead of Saur

ayanamsha in 499 AD which was the zero year for which Aryabhatiya was

based. Sun's table shows a clear order which leads us to suspect that in

908 AD, tropical values of Saur and Drik Sun were same. If nirayana

computations are made, the year of zero difference in Sun will be 782

AD. . Burgess gave a wrong value at 250 AD. But only Sun cannot be a

criteria. If mean positions of all planets are compared, 2000 AD is the

year of minimum difference, and such a date arrives after every 42000

years. Barring Sun, other planets do not give any result at all, due to

undulating values of differences, which even Burgess noted.

 

 

 

Burgess tried hard to understand Suryasiddhanta, but he could get only

those pandits who were greedy of mone, and therefore could not get the

help of those pandits who did not want to divulge their secrets to a

Christian priest. Suryasiddhanta clearly says that all its secrets must

not be given to all and sundry (in the end of two chapters). Most

serious mistake of Burgess was his inability to understand the

Suryasiddhantic tradition of beeja-samskaara. His secong error was a

wrong method of making true planets out of mean planets, which is

against laws of mathematics as well as against traditional

Suryasiddhatic (Makaranda) tables which Burgess knew well but could not

find their formulae and therefore published a wrong method. There are a

lot of other mistakes in his commentary too, which have not been removed

by later commentators, due to canonical prohibition on publishing all

the secrets of Suryasiddhata.

 

 

 

Another point is about Samanta Chandrashekhara. He changed values of

Suryasiddhantic constants in order to get modern astronomical positions

of planets. Had he succeeded, why some panchanga makers are not making

panchangas on his lines ? The fact is thet whatever changes we make in

Suryasiddhantic constants, we cannot make the planetary positions

conform to physical planets due to fundamental theoretical differences.

For instance, the four mandaphala and shighraphala samskaaras can never

fit with modern astronomy. Mars can produce a maximum of 22:17 " merely

on account of its equation of centre. Another instance is planetary

distances : Suryasiddhantic Sun is at a distance of 1/ 27.2 AU !! But

Moon's distance is same as given by modern astronomy !! How can such a

system fit with physical astronomy ?? Hence, if one wants the positions

of physical astronomy, he/she will have t0 discard Suryasiddhanta

completely. It cannot be reformed at all.

 

 

 

But it is wrong to call it outdated, because if Suryasiddhanta is wrong

today, it was more wrong in any period of the past. Nirayana mean values

of Suryasiddhantic planetary positions have minimum " errors " for ~2000

AD !! Does it mean Suryasiddhanta was composed for 2000 AD ??

 

 

 

Comparison with physical astronomy gives impossible conclusions which

cannot be resolved. If such a method is accepted, we must conclude that

all ancient scholars were idiots who could not observe errors of over 10

degrees in planetary positions for long durations.

 

 

 

But ancient evidence is opposite : Suryasiddhanta was eulogized as the

best treatise for astrology, and those who observed physical stars and

planets for astrological purposes were despised as nakshatra-soochakas

!! This is the very meaning of " soochaka " . All ancient texts say that

astrological planets are divinities. And divinities can never be seen

sensorily. The only proof of Suryasiddhana is an honest and sincere

ASTROLOGICAL enquiry. Many members are already downloading Kundalee

software to test the continuing astrological validity of Suryasiddhanta.

 

 

 

Why take a single criteria, why not check all the planets ?? Why ?? The

reason is simple. A single criteria is selected according to dating

which fits in Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). Other facts need to be

neglected, in order to save this AIT. Vedanga Jyotisha mentioned Maagha

Shukla Pratipadaa as one of the conditions of uttarayana at the start of

Dhanishthaa, which Colebrooke and all his " honest " followers

deliberately neglected to mention, because they had to prove a date not

before 1500 BC. Similarly, Varaha Mihira's verse-9 in

Brihaspati-chaaraadhyaaya of Brihad-samhitaa is never analyzed for

dating a concurreence when Prabhava samvatsara concurred with Brihaspati

at the start of Dhanishthaa in Maagha month , because any sincere effort

of finding such concurrences push the dates of Indian history into

remote prehistory going back to hundreds of thousands of years. Hence,

facts are neglected or distorted, and fictions are propounded as

theories. As I said above, this modern view is guided by a world view

which is the dominant view of ruling elite in the world today. But is

this elite immortal ? How long truth about Vedas and Vedaangas,

including Suryasiddhanta will be suppressewd or neglected ? The real

Vedaanga is Suryasiddhanta and books of rishis like Parashara and

Jaimini ; Mahatma Lagadha's books were not for astrologers, they were

for Vaidikas who performed sacrifices. Our whole history has been

written with an alien point of view, who " discovered " India according to

their colonial and cultural interests.

 

 

 

Instead of bickering about the date of Suryasiddhanta, if we sit down to

test the astrological validity of Suryasiddhanta by means of freely

available Kundalee software, we will have to accept that Suryasiddhanta

is not a book of physical astronomy at all. It is actually the

siddhantic bedrock of Vedic Astrology without which the mathematical

basis of Tri-skandha Jyotisha will lose its fundamental skandha. If we

do not want to learn Suryasiddhanta and abuse it, Suryasiddhanta will

not teach us automatically. Jyotisha, besides human destiny, is not

guided by physical planets, but by superconscious deities who cannot be

propitiated by sapphire or diamond if our hearts are not pure.

 

 

 

-VJ

 

 

 

 

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The tables I pasted here were deformed by javascript of .

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, " vinayjhaa16 " <vinayjhaa16

wrote:

>

>

> To All:

>

> Suryasiddhanta's first chapter says it was given by Lord Surya to

Maya

> the Asura after the latter performed a great deal of tapasyaa, at the

> fag end of previous Satyuga, which was slightly before 2165109 years

> from now (add 52 years for excess of siddhantic year over Julioan).

> According to epics and Puranas, Maya is said to be founder of

Jyotisha,

> vaastu shaastra, town planning, architecture, temple building, etc.

> Without Maya, Veda would have been blind, because sages eulogized

> Jyotisha as the eye of Veda. Hence, it is wrong to call Maya a

> mlechchha. Some asuras were mlechchhas, but the ancestors of all

> mlechchhas and asuras were Aryans, if we believe Puranas. Puranas say

> that mlechchhas were expelled from India due to their bad conduct. In

> koine Greek, the very word Europa etymologically meant " easterlies " ,

> and 'European' would thus mean " those who came from the East " .

>

> To moderners, Suryasiddhanta in Satyuga sounds absurd. They must find

> its date somewhere in the historical period before Varaha Mihira who

> eulogized Suryasiddhanta as being most clear ( " spashta " , cf.

> Panchsiddhaantikaa edited by Thibaut & Sudhakar Dvivedi) of all

> siddhantas, and even before Aryabhatta who is said to have written a

> commentary on Suryasiddhanta which is not available. This modern view

is

> guided by a world view which is the dominant view of ruling elite in

the

> world today.

>

> According to Burgess, Whitney had a firm opinion that Indians were

> incapable of inventing anything, while Burgess maintained that Indian

> astronomy was more ancient than Greek. But when it came to

conclusions,

> Burgess had no difference with Whitney. Leave aside these

ideosyncratic

> or culturally biased views, let us talk of facts. How can we fix the

> date of composition of Suryasiddhanta ???

>

> Ujjain, 3 March : Comparison of Saayana Planets :

> Suryasiddhantic(Saur) and Physical (Drik)

>

> AD

>

> Method

>

> Sun

>

> Moon

>

> Mars

>

> Mercury

>

> Jupiter

>

> Venus

>

> Saturn

>

> 382

>

> Drik

>

> 343:33:59

>

> 001:39:24

>

> 304:06:20

>

> 320:29:20

>

> 238:48:12

>

> 310:08:09

>

> 050:58:12

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 344:09:44

>

> 002:18:18

>

> 306:00:04

>

> 317:26:27

>

> 236:14:05

>

> 307:10:43

>

> 058:18:51

>

> 482

>

> Drik

>

> 344:18:44

>

> 318:25:11

>

> 347:52:07

>

> 319:15:50

>

> 025:16:49

>

> 027:27:47

>

> 209:22:01

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 344:47:48

>

> 319:25:52

>

> 350:42:50

>

> 324:10:33

>

> 021:03:18

>

> 025:40:02

>

> 214:40:16

>

> 582

>

> Drik

>

> 345:03:34

>

> 253:57:54

>

> 029:03:14

>

> 335:51:57

>

> 188:46:46

>

> 325:47:33

>

> 337:17:06

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 345:25:49

>

> 258:28:12

>

> 031:42:36

>

> 343:39:19

>

> 185:05:00

>

> 322:54:50

>

> 342:03:42

>

> 682

>

> Drik

>

> 345:48:00

>

> 215:27:37

>

> 073:50:27

>

> 358:38:34

>

> 342:03:44

>

> 028:07:06

>

> 128:39:19

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 346:03:50

>

> 214:34:27

>

> 076:53:20

>

> 000:13:16

>

> 338:05:47

>

> 031:01:54

>

> 138:56:21

>

> 782

>

> Drik

>

> 346:33:23

>

> 152:21:34

>

> 157:55:10

>

> 357:25:17

>

> 136:30:39

>

> 342:28:19

>

> 272:56:05

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 346:41:49

>

> 154:02:50

>

> 165:14:47

>

> 350:55:52

>

> 132:22:37

>

> 340:03:29

>

> 276:49:23

>

> 882

>

> Drik

>

> 347:18:01

>

> 109:07:50

>

> 260:33:02

>

> 322:29:25

>

> 298:43:55

>

> 323:44:48

>

> 044:58:58

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 347:19:46

>

> 107:58:29

>

> 261:48:04

>

> 320:02:06

>

> 295:40:57

>

> 335:09:06

>

> 051:04:16

>

> 982

>

> Drik

>

> 348:02:48

>

> 052:09:32

>

> 311:52:48

>

> 324:01:45

>

> 085:44:25

>

> 359:21:07

>

> 205:23:02

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 347:57:41

>

> 052:17:24

>

> 312:05:43

>

> 328:07:58

>

> 081:53:55

>

> 357:30:27

>

> 209:48:18

>

> 1082

>

> Drik

>

> 348:48:22

>

> 000:17:10

>

> 355:34:55

>

> 341:21:32

>

> 253:17:16

>

> 302:24:10

>

> 335:41:00

>

>

>

> Saur

>

> 348:35:35

>

> 000:24:57

>

> 356:47:17

>

> 347:45:54

>

> 251:39:09

>

> 301:33:34

>

> 337:05:04

>

>

>

> The most obvious way is to check planetary positions. If we decide

that

> Jupiter's position, for instance, should be the reference for which

> Suryasiddhanta's dating ought to be calculated in comparison to the

> value given by physical astronomy, Saturn will show disagreements

with

> physical astronomy by wide margins. If Saturn is fixed, some other

> planet will show intolerable divergences. I have devoted a whole

chapter

> on this problem in my Hindi book on Suryasiddhanta which was published

> in 2005 and went out of print in 2006. Table on left hand side (from

my

> book) shows the position of tropical planets at intervals of 100 years

> during the entire epoch which was considered to be the period of

> composition of Suryasiddha by scholars like Benteley or Burgess. Lower

> table shows the difference between Suryasiddhantic true planets from

> physical planets of modern astronomy for the period which all

> Westernerers consider to be period of composition of Suryasiddhanta.

>

>

>

> Comparison of Suryasiddhantic and Physical (Drik) Planets (seconds of

> arc)

>

> AD

>

> Sun

>

> Moon

>

> Mars

>

> Mercury

>

> Jupiter

>

> Venus

>

> Saturn

>

> 382

>

> -2145

>

> - 2334

>

> - 6824

>

> +10973

>

> + 9247

>

> +10646

>

> -26439

>

> 482

>

> -1744

>

> - 3641

>

> -10243

>

> -17683

>

> +15211

>

> + 6465

>

> -19095

>

> 582

>

> -1335

>

> -16218

>

> - 9562

>

> -28042

>

> +13306

>

> +10363

>

> -17196

>

> 682

>

> - 950

>

> + 3190

>

> -10973

>

> - 5682

>

> -21723

>

> -10488

>

> -37022

>

> 782

>

> - 506

>

> - 6076

>

> -26377

>

> +23365

>

> +14882

>

> + 8690

>

> -13998

>

> 882

>

> - 105

>

> + 4161

>

> - 4502

>

> + 8839

>

> +10978

>

> -41058

>

> -21918

>

> 982

>

> + 307

>

> - 472

>

> - 775

>

> -14773

>

> +13830

>

> + 6640

>

> -15916

>

> 1082

>

> + 767

>

> - 467

>

> - 4342

>

> -23062

>

> + 5887

>

> + 3036

>

> - 5044

>

> The conclusion one can deduce from such a comparison is : there is no

> period in whole history (I've checked other periods too, which cannot

be

> shown here due to space) for which Suryasiddhantic planetary positions

> can be brought to be within tolerable margins with respect to the

> planetary positions given by physical astronomy. Some people are

adamant

> on taking Suryasiddhantic planets as physical bodies. If this be

> accepted, Suryasiddhanta must have a date for which ALL its planets,

> tithis, yogas, karanas, eclipses, etc ought to conform to the findings

> of physical astronomy within a margin of tolerable limits, say 1

degree

> (supposing ancient Indians could not make more precise observations).

> What is that date ? Please show some date for which Suryasiddhantic

> planets could be made to conform to ALL physical planets. We will

fail,

> utterly. That is why Bentely took a resort to devious means to get a

> date of 1091 AD, which is against historical evidences, as even Varaha

> Mihira is known to be acquainted with Suryasiddhanta and eulogised it

as

> the best. Even Burgess had to say, in his commentary on Suryasiddhanta

:

> " planetary elements, which, when tested by the errors of position, in

> the manner already explained, do not appear to have been constructed

so

> as to give the true sidereal position at any assignable epoch " .

>

>

>

> As Varaha Mihira eulogized Suryasiddhanta as the clearest of all

> siddhantas, why we should not check whether Suryasiddhantic planets

> could be made to conform to physical planets at the time of Varaha

> Mihira ? If we take Varaha Mihira's date as between 505-550 AD, above

> tables show thT Suryasiddhantic planets had differences ranging from

> -28042 " to +15211 " , ie, from -4.2 to 7.8 degrees during the century

> from 482 to 582 AD (greater differences were observed in intervening

> years) !! Was Varaha Mihira so dull as to neglect such huge

differences

> ?? Above comparison is tropical. But sidereal comparison will yield

> similar results, with greater differences due to +2:59':22 " difference

> in ayanamsha in 499 AD. Saur ayanamsha zero in 499 AD, Drik ayanamsha

> was zero in 285 AD, hence Drig ayanamsha was +3 degrees ahead of Saur

> ayanamsha in 499 AD which was the zero year for which Aryabhatiya was

> based. Sun's table shows a clear order which leads us to suspect that

in

> 908 AD, tropical values of Saur and Drik Sun were same. If nirayana

> computations are made, the year of zero difference in Sun will be 782

> AD. . Burgess gave a wrong value at 250 AD. But only Sun cannot be a

> criteria. If mean positions of all planets are compared, 2000 AD is

the

> year of minimum difference, and such a date arrives after every 42000

> years. Barring Sun, other planets do not give any result at all, due

to

> undulating values of differences, which even Burgess noted.

>

>

>

> Burgess tried hard to understand Suryasiddhanta, but he could get only

> those pandits who were greedy of mone, and therefore could not get the

> help of those pandits who did not want to divulge their secrets to a

> Christian priest. Suryasiddhanta clearly says that all its secrets

must

> not be given to all and sundry (in the end of two chapters). Most

> serious mistake of Burgess was his inability to understand the

> Suryasiddhantic tradition of beeja-samskaara. His secong error was a

> wrong method of making true planets out of mean planets, which is

> against laws of mathematics as well as against traditional

> Suryasiddhatic (Makaranda) tables which Burgess knew well but could

not

> find their formulae and therefore published a wrong method. There are

a

> lot of other mistakes in his commentary too, which have not been

removed

> by later commentators, due to canonical prohibition on publishing all

> the secrets of Suryasiddhata.

>

>

>

> Another point is about Samanta Chandrashekhara. He changed values of

> Suryasiddhantic constants in order to get modern astronomical

positions

> of planets. Had he succeeded, why some panchanga makers are not making

> panchangas on his lines ? The fact is thet whatever changes we make in

> Suryasiddhantic constants, we cannot make the planetary positions

> conform to physical planets due to fundamental theoretical

differences.

> For instance, the four mandaphala and shighraphala samskaaras can

never

> fit with modern astronomy. Mars can produce a maximum of 22:17 " merely

> on account of its equation of centre. Another instance is planetary

> distances : Suryasiddhantic Sun is at a distance of 1/ 27.2 AU !! But

> Moon's distance is same as given by modern astronomy !! How can such a

> system fit with physical astronomy ?? Hence, if one wants the

positions

> of physical astronomy, he/she will have t0 discard Suryasiddhanta

> completely. It cannot be reformed at all.

>

>

>

> But it is wrong to call it outdated, because if Suryasiddhanta is

wrong

> today, it was more wrong in any period of the past. Nirayana mean

values

> of Suryasiddhantic planetary positions have minimum " errors " for ~2000

> AD !! Does it mean Suryasiddhanta was composed for 2000 AD ??

>

>

>

> Comparison with physical astronomy gives impossible conclusions which

> cannot be resolved. If such a method is accepted, we must conclude

that

> all ancient scholars were idiots who could not observe errors of over

10

> degrees in planetary positions for long durations.

>

>

>

> But ancient evidence is opposite : Suryasiddhanta was eulogized as the

> best treatise for astrology, and those who observed physical stars and

> planets for astrological purposes were despised as nakshatra-soochakas

> !! This is the very meaning of " soochaka " . All ancient texts say

that

> astrological planets are divinities. And divinities can never be seen

> sensorily. The only proof of Suryasiddhana is an honest and sincere

> ASTROLOGICAL enquiry. Many members are already downloading Kundalee

> software to test the continuing astrological validity of

Suryasiddhanta.

>

>

>

> Why take a single criteria, why not check all the planets ?? Why ??

The

> reason is simple. A single criteria is selected according to dating

> which fits in Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). Other facts need to be

> neglected, in order to save this AIT. Vedanga Jyotisha mentioned

Maagha

> Shukla Pratipadaa as one of the conditions of uttarayana at the start

of

> Dhanishthaa, which Colebrooke and all his " honest " followers

> deliberately neglected to mention, because they had to prove a date

not

> before 1500 BC. Similarly, Varaha Mihira's verse-9 in

> Brihaspati-chaaraadhyaaya of Brihad-samhitaa is never analyzed for

> dating a concurreence when Prabhava samvatsara concurred with

Brihaspati

> at the start of Dhanishthaa in Maagha month , because any sincere

effort

> of finding such concurrences push the dates of Indian history into

> remote prehistory going back to hundreds of thousands of years. Hence,

> facts are neglected or distorted, and fictions are propounded as

> theories. As I said above, this modern view is guided by a world view

> which is the dominant view of ruling elite in the world today. But is

> this elite immortal ? How long truth about Vedas and Vedaangas,

> including Suryasiddhanta will be suppressewd or neglected ? The real

> Vedaanga is Suryasiddhanta and books of rishis like Parashara and

> Jaimini ; Mahatma Lagadha's books were not for astrologers, they were

> for Vaidikas who performed sacrifices. Our whole history has been

> written with an alien point of view, who " discovered " India according

to

> their colonial and cultural interests.

>

>

>

> Instead of bickering about the date of Suryasiddhanta, if we sit down

to

> test the astrological validity of Suryasiddhanta by means of freely

> available Kundalee software, we will have to accept that

Suryasiddhanta

> is not a book of physical astronomy at all. It is actually the

> siddhantic bedrock of Vedic Astrology without which the mathematical

> basis of Tri-skandha Jyotisha will lose its fundamental skandha. If we

> do not want to learn Suryasiddhanta and abuse it, Suryasiddhanta will

> not teach us automatically. Jyotisha, besides human destiny, is not

> guided by physical planets, but by superconscious deities who cannot

be

> propitiated by sapphire or diamond if our hearts are not pure.

>

>

>

> -VJ

>

>

>

>

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