Sūrya Siddhānta
विक्षेपो दक्षिणे भागैः खार्णवैः स्वाद् अपक्रमात् / हुतभुग्ब्रह्महृदयौ वृषे द्वाविम्शभागगौ // अष्टाभिस् त्रिम्शता चैव विक्षिप्ताव् उत्तरेण तौ / गोलम् लब्ध्वा परीक्षेत विक्षेपम् ध्रुवकम् स्फुटम् //
11. ... Agni (hutabhuj) and Brahmahrdaya are in Taurus, the twenty-second degree; 12. And they are removed in latitude (vikshipta), northward, eight and thirty degrees respectively. . . . — E. Burgess (1860)
Burgess: 'The star named after the god of fire, Agni, and called in the text by one of his frequent epithets, hutabhuj, "devourer of the sacrifice," is the one which is situated at the extremity of the northern horn of the Bull, or β Tauri'; he notes 'the very gross error in the determination of the longitude of this star'.
Vaṭeśvara & Sāmanta · composed 1869 CE (Śaka 1791); edited by Joges Chandra Ray, Calcutta 1899
हुतभुग्ब्रह्महृदययोः पञ्चाशां५२शा ध्रुवश्च सौरोक्ताः ।
प्रथमस्याष्टौ८ त्रिंश३० द्वितीयभस्योत्तरं ष्वंशाः ॥ २९ ॥
ब्रह्महृदयपूर्व्वस्यां पञ्चभिरंशैः प्रजापतिर्वसति ।
तस्योत्तरविक्षेपः कुञ्जररामां३८शकोऽप्युदितः ॥ ३० ॥
आधुनिकैरभियुक्तैर्निश्चित्योक्तं पृथक् च संस्थानम् ।
हुतभुग्ब्रह्महृदययोः प्रजापतेस्तत्पुनर्वच्मि ॥ ३१ ॥
हुतभुग्ध्रुवः सपादाष्टार्थीं५८।१५शाः साद्धिपञ्च५।१५ सौम्यशरः ।
षड्विकलास्तन्मानं ध्रुवः पुनर्ब्रह्महृदयस्य ॥ ३२ ॥
अङ्कार्धाः५६ सौम्यशरस्त्रिभुज२३लवा नृपा१६स्तनूविकलाः ।
सोमभ(५)याम्यगतो यो लुब्धक एतत्प्रजापतिभम् ॥ ३३ ॥
Devanagari transcribed by the compiler from the page FACSIMILE (archive.org scan leaf n220 = printed p. 118) because the archive.org OCR of this volume is unusable for Devanagari; the page image itself was fetched in this session at https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.292705/page/n220.jpg . Every numeral was re-read at full scan resolution. Cross-checked against a second, independent scan of the same Ray edition at https://archive.org/download/siddhantadarpanachandrashekarsimha1897_252_Z/ , which agrees character for character on the figures. Round brackets and the figures in them are the PRINTED EDITION'S own: (n) is the serial number of the asterism/star, the figure after it the edition's decoding of the preceding bhūtasaṅkhyā word-numeral, so no numeral has been silently converted here. A handful of the compound word-forms in this worn 1899 type are uncertain and are marked in this database as read, not emended; the FIGURES, which carry the astronomy, were verified at high magnification in both scans.
See the translation given under Brahmahṛdaya for the same block of verses (29–33). — Literal rendering by the compiler
★ SĀMANTA'S CORRECTION IS DECISIVE. Burgess complained of 'the very gross error in the determination of the longitude of this star' in the Sūrya Siddhānta, which puts Agni at 52° with latitude 8° north; Sāmanta reports that same inherited value at XII.29 and then, at XII.31–32, gives the modern observers' figures: dhruva 58°15', northern śara 5°15', disc 6 vikalās. β Tauri (Elnath) stands at 58°10' / 5°23' N in his frame — his corrected values are right to 5' and 8'. The identification Agni = β Tauri, previously resting on Burgess's judgement against a badly wrong coordinate, is now supported by a coordinate that is essentially exact.
Siddhānta Darpaṇa of Candraśekhara Sāmanta, Grahagaṇita, Tripraśnādhikāra, 12th prakāśa (Bhagrahayogavarṇana) 29, 31–32 ·
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