The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c20.s1.13

c20.s1.13

The table for the second climate is reproduced in the *Brihaj jātaka* ² of Varāha Mihira (c. A.D. 550), and is therefore of considerable historical interest. Varāha Mihira lived at Ujjain, which the Hindus placed at the middle of the second climate.³ The *Sūrya Siddhānta* (iii, 42 f.) gives the correct rule for determining the times of rising (*Udayāsavas*) of the signs, but gives 24° as the obliquity.