Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s2.38

c4.s2.38

Earlier another astronomer had apparently lived at Sthāneśvara, where, in the eighth century, someone wrote a new Pauliśasiddhānta.⁵⁵ This astronomer, while accepting the planetary parameters of the Ārdharātrikapakṣa and the main division of the Kalpa according to the Āryapakṣa, compromised with smṛti (and the Brāhmapakṣa) to the extent of accepting the traditional division of a Mahāyuga. In order to achieve a mean conjunction at the beginning of the current Kaliyuga (which he placed 3,888,000 years after the beginning of the current Mahāyuga), he delayed the beginning of celestial motion 648,000 years so that there would remain 3,240,000 years (three of Āryabhaṭa's yugas) before the beginning of the current Kaliyuga. The Pauliśasiddhānta is not extant in its entirety, but many fragments remain in the works of Pṛthūdakasvāmin, Bhaṭṭotpala, al-Bīrūnī, and Āmarāja.⁵⁶