Page:English translation of the Surya Siddhanta and the Siddhanta Siromani by Sastri, 1861.djvu/12

. The God Sun, having thus spoken to, and ordered the man born from himself (to teach ), disappeared. That man spoke to, who stood bending and folding his hands close to his forehead, in the following manner,

. (O ), hear attentively the excellent knowledge (of the science of Astronomy) which the Sun himself formerly taught to the great saints in each of the.

. I teach you the same ancient science, which the Sun himself formerly taught. (But) the difference (between the present and the ancient works) is caused only by time, on account of the revolution of the.

. Time is of two kinds: the first (is continuous and endless which) destroys all animate and inanimate things (which is also the cause of creation and preservation), the second is that which can be known. This (latter kind of time) is also of two kinds; the one is called (measurable) and the other is  (immeasurable, by reason of bulkiness and smallness respectively).

. The time called, begins with (a portion of time which contains four seconds,) and the time called  begins with  (a very small portion of time which is the $1⁄33750$th part of a second.) The time which contains six  is called a , and that which contains sixty  is called a.

. The time, which contains sixty is called a  (a sidereal day and night) and a  (a sidereal month) consists of thirty. Thirty (terrestrial) days (a terrestrial day being reckoned from sun-rise to sun-rise) make a  month.

. Thirty lunar days make a lunar days make a lunar month, and a solar month is the time which the Sun requires to move from