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Vākyapañcāṅga
Two types of almanacs are popular among the Tamil speaking people in India, and the world over. They are known by the names ''Vākyapañcāṅga'' and ''Thirugaṇita-pañcāṅga''. The latter is also known as ''Dṛggaṇita pañcāṅga''. This is not to be confused with the ''Dṛggaṇita pañcāṅga'', the nearly unanimous choice of almanac of Malayalam speaking people, established by Vatasseri Parameshvara Nambudiri (c. 1380–1460) who was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama. The ''Vākyapañcāṅga'' is based on the astronomical data and computational methods propounded in the various ''Siddhānta'' texts like the ''Sūrya-Siddhānta'' and uses the text '' Vākyakaraṇa'' of anonymous authorship as the basic source book. The ''Thirugaṇita-pañcāṅga'' is based on the modern values of the various astronomical parameters and incorporates modern formulas and computational sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vākyakaraṇa
''Vākyakaraṇa'' is the source book of ''Vākyapañcāṅga'' which is a type of almanac popular among Tamil speaking people of South India. In ''Vākyapañcāṅga'', the positions of the celestial entities and the timings of celestial events as obtained using the computational methods expounded in the text ''Vākyakaraṇa''. These methods make use of astronomical tables compiled centuries ago. Each entry in such tables is in the form of a ''vākya'', that is, a sentence in Sanskrit, and it represents some numerical value encoded using the Katapayadi system, ''kaṭapayādi'' scheme. Different sets of such ''vākya''-s have been compiled for different celestial entities. One such set is ''Chandravakyas, Cāndrvākya''-s which is a set of 247 values relating to the position of the Moon. The original set of ''Chandravakyas, Cāndrvākya''-s are attributed to the legendary Kerala astronomer Vararuci. These were later revised by Madhava of Sangamagrama, Mādhava of Saṅgamagrāma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
