Jyotihshastra: Astral and Mathematical Literature c4.s3.3

c4.s3.3

¹¹⁴ The views of T. S. KUPPANA SHASTRI, "The Epoch of the Romaka Siddhānta in the Pañcasiddhāntikā, and the Epoch Longitudes of the Sun and Moon in the Vāsiṣṭha-Pauliśa," IJHS 13 (1978), 151—158, are too involved to be argued against here. In general, his solution violates the principles that a *lectio difficilior* which makes sense is preferable to the *lectio facilior* that smells of being a learned emendation, and that modern astronomical computations must not be used to revise a manuscript tradition unless there is some substantial reason to believe that that tradition has misrepresented the author's original and that the original must have been in agreement with the modern computations.