Wish you all a Happy New Year, Vijayanama Samvatsaram.
Today is the Chandramana Ugadhi, the lunar New year Day celebrated in Andhra and Karnataka. Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra, Thappan in Rajastan, Chetichand in Sindh.
On this day let us remember for a second our great thinkers who have done marvelous works on Astronomy, Advanced Mathematics and cosmology an accurate system, next only to the modern atomic clock. Among them were Varahamihira (490 AD), who set out Bijakarana, and wrote Pancha Sidhantha and brihathsamhita, Arya bhatta (499 AD) who wrote Arya Sidhantha, Brahma Gupta (598 AD) who compiled Sayan Mesha Sankramana, Munjala (932 AD) who invented Ayana movement and set an year as Kala. Shantananda who calculated the positions of the Sun and the Moon according to Constellations and wrote "Bhasvatikarana". Bhaskara (1114 AD) who wrote "Udayantara". Ganeshdaivajna (1478 AD)who compiled "Gruhalagnava Garga".
Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.