jii stURYA SIDDHANTA and their times with the definite motive of making their affs nomical systems and calculations acceptable to the people of Hindu India, by representing them as direct transmission from their gods. £o this class belong the following Sidd}\intas 1. Sygo Sidhanta, 10. Marek Sidhist a 2. Pataba Siddhanta 11. M at Sidhato ३. Vgista Shak}f । 12. A igiri Siddhika 4. Yesista Siddhika 18. ore (Formaka. १) Sidhite 5. Atri Sid 74. a zu Saddint 3. Parikra Sidbirth 15. (Mada Siddhanta 7. K£q¢cpu Shanta. I6. Y»a Sikhta. 8. Niraha Siddhite . 17. B१४ Siddha.c. 9. Gurga Siddhanta. 8. Saunalk¢ Siddhfinta Wher name is eighteen * to match Lo Patra as of which also the name is eighteen Bo revelation is ei!y{e€y ways stated. The versifier might have easily pushed up the number io $wenty which is the number of t]he authors of the Dharma Sh8trus. But at the time of Varahaonly live of these siddhites were known, the Palika, Rotar, Vasist}, Surt and the Putaha Sadatu४.* Even at the time of Bhaskara 11, 1he well-known omes were five,” and regarded as gaoitus or trentises on Betho nonny. Some of these eighteen works are known from the quotations made from thern by Bhattotpala (886 A.D.) in his commentary on the B?bct. Sahitya of Vaइhamihira, while the rest are known im name only. Some of these, again, were purely astrological treatises. The Sझrga. Sadhanta ]B at the top of this cla3B of revelations. It was revealed to Maya an A 89!r, in all probability an Assyrian or rather a Babylonian. The date i५ स्थैः पितामहो व्यासो वशिष्ठोऽत्रिः पराशरः । कश्यपो नारदो गर्गो मरीचिर्भानुरङ्गिराः ॥ लोमश: पौलिशमैव ष्यवनो यवगो क्षगुः । रोगकोऽष्टादशचैते ज्योति:शस्त्रप्रवर्त्तकाः ॥ Quothed by Sudhज्ञkara, गदातर निर्ण, पृ: १ । Cy. Borgess quotation on pp. 322-24 t मन्दविषिञ्च हारीतधावकोऽशमोऽfरा: । यमाभशस्थसंयतः कन्यायमञ्चहस्पती । पराशरस्यासश्च लिखिता दचगोतमी शतारुष वशिष्ठ श्च धर्मशास्त्रप्रयोजकाः ॥ Y¢jaaR.go Swrt 4 पंजिशरोमक वसिष्ठ -सौरपैतामहस्तु सिद्धान्ता: | Pointo Siddditika, i. 8. ६ गबिसानि पञ्च चतुरोवेदमधीते च यः List1, 250, 4be last stanzE.
