Varāhamihira (English spelling)

Japanese: バラーハミヒラ(英語表記)Varāhamihira
Varāhamihira (English spelling)
He was India's greatest astronomer and astrologer, who lived around the 6th century. He wrote the astronomical book Pañcasiddhāntikā (550), which combined traditional Indian astronomy, which had developed in the Vedic period and by the 5th century had developed, with elements of Greek and Roman astronomy. This book is one of the most important sources for elucidating earlier astronomy. Furthermore, his work Bṛhat-saṃhitā is an encyclopedia that covers not only astronomy and astrology, but also a wide variety of other topics.

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Japanese:
6世紀頃在世のインド最大の天文学者,占星学者。ベーダ時代に発し,5世紀頃までに発展したインドの伝統的な天文学とギリシアやローマの天文学の要素とを融和して,天文学書『パンチャシッダーンティカー』 Pañcasiddhāntikā (550) を著わした。同書はそれ以前の天文学を解明するうえでも重要な資料の一つ。さらに彼の著『ブリハット・サンヒター』 Bṛhat-saṃhitāは天文学,占星学のみならず,多種多様な項目を扱った百科全書的な性格をもっている。

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