[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981) › c4.25 # Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.25 Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.25 - **Language:** English ### [c4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.25) Two Sanskrit texts have preserved for us what remains of Greco-Babylonian astronomy in India. Sphujidhvaja (269/70) describes some aspects of it in the last chapter (79) of the Yavanajātaka,¹⁰ a text based in large part on the translation of a Greek text from Alexandria made by Yavaneśvara in 149/150; Sphujidhvaja (YJ 79, 3) refers to a \*siddhānta\* by Vasiṣṭha. Varāhamihira in the sixth century summarized in his Pañcasiddhāntikā¹¹ a Vasiṣṭhasiddhānta whose epoch is 3 December 499 (PS 2; and, probably, 17, 1–60), a Romakasiddhānta (\*siddhānta\* of the Romans) of the third or fourth century (PS 1, 9–10 and 15; and 8), and a Pauliśasiddhānta (\*siddhānta\* of Paulus ?) of the same period (PS 1, 11–13; 3; and 17, 64–80). The last two \*siddhāntas\* were known to Varāhamihira in recensions produced by Lāṭadeva; his epoch for them was 21 March 505. The original version of the Romakasiddhānta was probably the one used by Bhāskara (629) in his Bhāṣya on A (pp. 183, 186 and 202). - [Previous: c4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.24) - [Next: c4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.26) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4) ## Linked texts (6) - [Vṛddhayavanajātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.hora.yavana.vrddhayavanajataka) — Mīnarāja, Sanskrit - [Āryabhaṭīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.aryabhatiya) — Āryabhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Vāsiṣṭhasiddhānta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.vasistha) — Sanskrit - [Pauliśasiddhānta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.paulisa) — Sanskrit - [Romakasiddhānta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.romaka) — Sanskrit - [Pañcasiddhāntikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.siddhanta.early.pancasiddhantika) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1981.c4.25) · Pramāṇa