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The globe of the Earth stands supportless in space... Just as the [spherical] bulb of a Kadamba flower is covered all around by blossoms, just so is the globe of the Earth surrounded by all creatures, terrestrial as well as aquatic.

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Translates to: for a triangle, the result of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area.

When it is sunrise at Lanka, it is sunset at Siddhapura, midday at Yavakoti, and midnight at Romaka.

When sixty times sixty years and three quarter yugas (of the current yuga) had elapsed, twenty three years had then passed since my birth.

100 plus 4, multiplied by 8, and added to 62,000: this is the nearly approximate measure of the circumference of a circle whose diameter is 20,000.

The apparent motion of the Sun along the ecliptic (red) - With Kala-kriya he turned to astronomy — in particular, treating planetary motion along the ecliptic.

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