Munjala's Laghumanasa corrected panchangas.

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Shri A. Sharmaji,

 

Jai Shri Ram!

 

Thank you for your response. #6444 dt. 28 Oct in Hinducalendar forum.

 

You have said, “As AKKji wrote (see below), then why can't we go back to that

Munjala's Laghumanasa corrected Panchaanga?â€

 

 

 

That is exactly what is being done these days by all the panchangamakers

including the Rashtriya Pancdhanga, with the only difference that they are doing

further “beeja (ayanamsha) corrections to beeja corrected†longitudes!

 

 

 

It appears you never use Rashtriya Panchanga in any language! It keeps on

repeating year after year, on the page giving comparative figures of Surya

Sidhanta mean longitudes vis-à-vis modern astronomy and the “Beeja

corrections†resulting there from, and I quote, “The planetary position in

the (Rashtriya) panchangas are given on the basis of the Surya Sidhanta

longitudes with beeja corrections as given above†What the Rashtriya

Panchanga calls beeja corrections is nothing but the difference between the mean

longitudes of the Surya Sidhanta planets vis-à-vis that of modern astronomy

which it gives in a separate column on that very page.

 

And in the “Indian Astronomical Ephemeris†on the basis of which Rashtirya

Panchangas are published, the same India Meteorlogical Department and Positional

Astronomy Centre, Kolkatta, publishers of the Rashtriya Panchanga, keep on

repeating, year after year, “By international agreement the basic ephemerides

are shared between the ephemeris offices of several countries and the remaining

countries receive them according to their requirements. Our sincere thanks are

due to the Superintendent, British Nautical Almanac Office, The Directors of the

Nautical Almanac Offices of U. S. A. and U. S. S. R and of the Astronomisches

Rechen Institute, Heidelberg for the data furnished by themâ€.

 

You must also be aware that 99.99 percent of Panchanga-makers get all their

data, which theuy reproduce in their panchangas, from none other than from

Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkatta! So they are virtually “Munjala’s

Laghumanasa corrected panchangas†because that was what Munjala had

desired---to make planetary longitudes driktulya! Munjala was not himself sure

that the ayanamsha correction suggested by him would hold correct for a long

span of time!

 

BHU in Varanasi and another university in Darbhanga are the only two

universities/organizations, the world over that publish panchangas based on the

Surya Sidhanta! And they also claim that it is with beeja corrections!

However, they get the timings of Heliacal rising and setting of planets apart

from the timings of eclipses etc. from Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkatta and

they acknowledge the same in their panchangas!

 

Swami Kannu Pillai’s Indian Ephemeris for several centuries in the past, that

was based on the Surya Sidhanta, also was after beeja samskaras. And he has

said it openly in his Preface of those ephemerides that he had worked the

longitudes as per Ketakar Graha Ganitam! And those longitudes are so called

nirayana---based on astronomical tables of overseas sources!

 

Thus the aim of beeja corrections in the planetary longitudes of ancient

sidhantas is to make them “drik-tulya†that is those “beeja samskrtaâ€

longitudes must tally exactly with the apparent phenomena! In other words, the

longitudes of planets supplied from JPL/NASA are the most accurate

“drik-tulya†longitudes, with the only difference that they are not based on

the absolutely useless and wrong data of the Surya Sidhanta by Maya the mlechha

but on real observations!

 

The only confusion that “Vedic astrologers†are making worst confounded is

by making yet another “beeja samskara†and that is ayanamsha tonsure! That

way the “drik-tulya†longitudes remain neither real drik-tulya nor do they

remain sidhantic nor Pauranic nor as per modern astronomy, and NOT EVEN AS PER

PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL GEOGRAPHY!

 

Kindly, therefore, use your good offices with jyotishis and ask them to desist

from making a mockery of the sidhantas as well puranas and even modern astronomy

by the ayanamsha mess---hundreds of them!

 

Q.E.D (or is it QEF?)

 

Jai Shri Ram

 

A K Kaul

 

PS

 

Pl do not construe that I am advocating so called sayana longitudes.

Astronomically and even as per the Vedas and the sidhantas and Puranas, the

words Sayana and Nirayana and even ayanamsha do not exist at all. They are a

post Munjala phenomenon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Om Namaste to One & All.

 

 

 

As AKKji wrote (see below), then why can't we go back to that Munjala's

Laghumanasa corrected Panchaanga?

 

 

 

ASharma.

 

 

 

AKKji's Quote start:

 

" Attempts were made to do “beeja correctionsâ€Â----a sinister word

with an obnoxious meaning---in the Surya Sidhanta of Surya Bhagwan to some how

or the other circumnavigate around the same SS calculations! Thus we find

Brahmasphuta Sidhanta, Shishyadhivridhida etc. etc. sidhantas in the same vein.

Munjala was the first Indian astronomer to understand the tragic state of

affairs that the calculations of the SS were fundamentally wrong and he advised

that the longitudes of the planets as per the Surya Sidhanta must be corrected

by an amount of one arc-minute per year from Shaka 444 to make them tally with

the exact phenomena. As per Alberuni’s India, we started celebrating

festivals on correct days in India after Munjala’s Laghumanasa, since

otherwise there was a difference of about one week between the dates of Makar

Sankranti and Uttarayana. The Ayanamsha as per Munjala between Shaka 444 and

Shaka 854, the gauge year of Munjala’s Laghumanasa, was 6° 50’

at the rate of 1’ per year. Thus after adding the ayanamsha of 6°

50’ to the surya Sidhanta longitudes of the sun, the Surya Sidhanta Makar

Sankranti did actually coincide with Uttarayana i.e. Winter Solstice of Shaka

854 (932 AD). Similarly, the Vernal Equinox did coincide with Mesha Sankranti

with that correction and so on.

 

Alberuni has said in “Alberuni’s India†that Utpala of

Kashmir had started making correct pancanga from Munjala’s Laghumanasa.

 

We also learn from pages 50 and 51 of Laghumanasa of INSA edition that right

from 930 AD through 1042 (Bhojaraja, a Parmara king of Dhara in Malava country,

to Tamma Yajva (AD 1613) son of Mallaya Yajva, in his Grahaganita- bhastkara,

all the Indian astronomers had used Munjala’s formula for finding the

longitudes of plants etc. “Astronomer Achyuta of Kerala (died 1621), too

has framed several of the rules given in his Karanottama on the model of those

stated in the Laghumanasa†page 50 of Laghumanasa (INSA-1990).

 

Thus whatever the “Vedic astrologers†right from Kashmir to Kerala

or even Kanya Kumari may say today, whole of India was actually following a so

called Sayana system, after making corrections of Munjala’s Ayanamsha in

the Surya Sidhanta etc. sidhantas!

 

It is only in around sixteenth/seventeen th century that tables got turned when

the “great comet†of “Indian astrology†viz. Ganesha

Daivajnya was born and he spawned the nastiest astronomical work known as

Grahalaghava, that we are reeling under the so called nirayana and sayana

confusion! " .

 

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