It treats Earth as stationary globe around which Sun orbits, and makes no mention of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. The text asserts, according to Markanday and Srivatsava, that the Earth is of a spherical shape. The second verse of the first chapter of the Surya Siddhanta attributes the words to an emissary of the solar deity of Hindu mythology, Surya, as recounted to an asura called Maya at the end of Satya Yuga, the first golden age from Hindu texts, around two million years ago. Īs per al-Biruni, the 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath, a text named the Surya Siddhanta was written by Lātadeva, a student of Aryabhatta I. The Surya Siddhanta text is composed of verses made up of two lines, each broken into two halves, or pãds, of eight syllables each. 800 CE from an earlier text also called the Surya Siddhanta. The text is known from a 15th-century CE palm-leaf manuscript, and several newer manuscripts. The Surya Siddhanta describes rules to calculate the motions of various planets and the moon relative to various constellations, diameters of various planets, and calculates the orbits of various astronomical bodies. 'Sun Treatise') is a Sanskrit treatise in Indian astronomy dated to 4th to 5th century, in fourteen chapters. The Surya Siddhanta ( IAST: Sūrya Siddhānta lit. Sanskrit text on Indian astronomy Verse 1.1 (prayer to Brahman)
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