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  2. Tantrasamgraha - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 7 (Drikkarma-prakaranam (On visibility computation)): Discusses the rising and setting of the moon and planets. (15 slokas) Chapter 8 (Sringonnati-prakaranam (On elevation of the lunar cusps)): Examines the size of the part of the moon which is illuminated by the sun and gives a graphical representation of it. (40 slokas)

  3. Waiting for the Mahatma - Wikipedia

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    Sriram's underground activity takes place in the countryside, an area alien to him, and the misunderstandings with the locals provide the book's best comic moments. After spending some time in jail, Sriram is reunited with Bharati, and the story ends with their engagement amidst the tragedy of India's partition in 1947 and Gandhi's death in 1948.

  4. Rama - Wikipedia

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    is full of glory, square-built, and of well-proportioned limbs and is endowed with a dark-brown complexion. [ 92 ] Iconography of Rama during his exile and his war with Ravana

  5. A Honeymoon in Space - Wikipedia

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    A Honeymoon in Space is a 1901 novel by George Griffith. It was originally serialized in abridged form in Pearson's Magazine in 1900 under the title Stories of Other Worlds . The scientific romance story depicts a tour of the Solar System , a type of story that was in vogue at the time.

  6. Aryabhata - Wikipedia

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    This is indicated in the first chapter of the Aryabhatiya, where he gives the number of rotations of the Earth in a yuga, [30] and made more explicit in his gola chapter: [31] In the same way that someone in a boat going forward sees an unmoving [object] going backward, so [someone] on the equator sees the unmoving stars going uniformly westward.

  7. Yuktibhāṣā - Wikipedia

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    Yuktibhāṣā (Malayalam: യുക്തിഭാഷ, lit. 'Rationale'), also known as Gaṇita-yukti-bhāṣā [1]: xxi and Gaṇitanyāyasaṅgraha (English: Compendium of Astronomical Rationale), is a major treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by the Indian astronomer Jyesthadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics around 1530. [2]

  8. Sriram Ramaswamy - Wikipedia

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    Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy (born 10 November 1957) is an Indian physicist. He is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , and previously the director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad .

  9. Pinaka (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Jālandhara turned into (one) having a crore of arms and fought Śiva with trees, weapons and missiles; and he, the Ocean’s son, put the earth that was decorated with the red chalk into the intermediate space; and the Ocean’s son made the earth adorned with many charming temples of deities, full of various (kinds of) flowers.