Bharatiya Jyotihshastra (History of Indian Astronomy), translated by R. V. Vaidya v2.c12.s2.t10.2

v2.c12.s2.t10.2

The modern Sūrya Siddhānta has 14 Chapters. All of them together contain 500 verses in ‘anuṣṭup’ metre. The verses at the beginning, out of those which have given the numbers of revolutions and other elements etc. above, show that a person who was a “part of God Sun Himself” described by Sun’s order, this Siddhānta to Maya, an Asura, at the end of the Kṛtayuga. It means that 2164996 years elapsed after its revelation, till the beginning of Śaka 1817.