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Translation of the Sûrya-Siddhânta:

E Text-book of Hindu Astronomy (Google eBook)
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Great Text. Thank you for making this available.

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The book is not in PDF-readable format, so it is useless for electronic search. A while ago I bought a printed copy of the same edition of the book (identical to yours), which unfortunately is also very difficult to read.
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TitleTranslation of the Sûrya-Siddhânta: E Text-book of Hindu Astronomy
AuthorEbenezer Burgess
Published1860
Original fromUniversity of Lausanne
DigitizedMay 8, 2009
  
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