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Sāṁvatsara—astrologer (*see* Sir M. W. Dict. p. 1102). Kern translates the last pāda as “to gratify clever astrologers” but he attempts no explanation as to why the astrologers in particular are to be gratified on “a work on the art of building” (Kern's translation of Vāstu-jñāna), which in fact forms no part of astrology proper. It is apparent that in Varāhamihira's time the astrologers were intimately connected with the work of professional architects (sthapati), as also the astronomers like Bhāskarāchārya and others; Śaṅkarāchārya is, however, a philosopher.