History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.173

v6.c82.173

⁷⁴⁰ Difference is made between a siddhānta work and a karaṇa. The latter is a compendious astronomical work which does not discuss astronomical theories at length (as the siddhāntas do) and furnishes a set of concise and approximately correct rules for the quick performance of the more important astronomical computations