Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.25

c13.25

He is considered by the commentators of the Soorya siddhanta and Siromani,²⁸ as the earliest of uninspired and mere human writers on the science of astronomy; as having introduced requisite corrections into the system of Parasara, from whom he took the numbers for the planetary mean motions; as having been followed in the tract of emendation, after a sufficient interval to make further correction requisite, by Durgasinha and Mihira; who were again succeeded after a further interval by Brahmegupta, son of Jishnu.²⁹