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Varahamihira



Varahamihira (505 – 587) was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer born in Ujjain. Varahamihira's book Pancasiddhantika (or Pancha-Siddhantika, The Five Astronomical Canons) dated 575 CE gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost.



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