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3.3 Combinatorics
1.4 Sankhya-Siddhanta
He was among the rst mathematicians to discover a ver-
Another of Varahamihiras lesser known works is the sion of what is now known as the Pascals triangle. He
Sankhya-Siddhanta. Not much is known about this work, used it to calculate the binomial coecients.[11][12][13]
since only a fragment of it was recovered. From what
has been recovered, archaeologists state that it dealt with
advanced arithmetic, trigonometry, as well as some rela- 3.4 Optics
tively basic concepts.
Among Varahamihiras contribution to physics is his
statement that reection is caused by the back-scattering
2 Inuences of particles and refraction (the change of direction of a
light ray as it moves from one medium into another) by
the ability of the particles to penetrate inner spaces of
The Romaka Siddhanta (Doctrine of the Romans) and the material, much like uids that move through porous
the Paulisa Siddhanta were two works of Western ori- objects.[14]
gin which inuenced Varahamihiras thought, though this
view is controversial as there is much evidence to sug- 1. ^ the Paca-siddhntik (Five Treatises), a com-
gest that it was actually Vedic thought indigenous to In- pendium of Greek, Egyptian, Roman and Indian astron-
dia which rst inuenced Western astrologers and subse- omy. Varhamihiras knowledge of Western astronomy
quently came back to India reformulated.[5] Paulisa Sid- was thorough. In 5 sections, his monumental work pro-
dhanta is often mistakenly thought to be a single work and gresses through native Indian astronomy and culminates
attributed to Paul of Alexandria (c. 378 CE).[6] However, in 2 treatises on Western astronomy, showing calculations
this notion has been rejected by other scholars in the eld, based on Greek and Alexandrian reckoning and even giv-
notably by David Pingree who stated that "...the iden- ing complete Ptolemaic mathematical charts and tables.
tication of Paulus Alexandrinus with the author of the Encyclopdia Britannica (2007) s.v.Varahamihira ^
Paulia Siddhnta is totally false.[7] Number of his writ- 2. E. C. Sachau, Alberunis India (1910), vol. I, p. 153
ings share similarities with the earlier texts like Vedanga
Jyotisha.[8]
A comment in the Brihat-Samhita by Varahamihira says: 4 See also
The Greeks, though barbarians.,[9] must be honored
since they have shown tremendous interest in our sci- Hora Sara
ence..... (mleccha hi yavanah tesu samyak shastram
kdamsthitam/ rsivat te 'p i pujyante kim punar daivavid List of Indian mathematicians
dvijah (Brihat-Samhita 2.15)).
5 Notes
3 Contributions
[1] J J O'Connor & E F Robertson. Varahamihira.
[11] Varahamihira.
[14] Varahamihira.
6 External links
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F.,
Varhamihira, MacTutor History of Mathematics
archive, University of St Andrews.
Pancasiddhantika, Brihat Jataka, Brihat Samhita
and Hora Shastra Various editions in English and
Sanskrit. (PDF)
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