Note 49 — PART I
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This opinion of Varāha has been confirmed by modern European scholars. Burgess (from whose translations of the Sūrya Siddhānta we have already quoted) remarks, “in regard to ... the amount of the annual precession of the equinoxes, the relative size of the sun and moon as compared with the earth, the greatest equation of the centre of the sun, the Hindus are more nearly correct than the Greeks.” (Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. vi. p. 480.)
[50] The Pañchasiddhântikâ. Edited by G. Thibaut, ch. i. § 3.