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Of [the two objects] the Sun and the Moon, when [the magnitude of the declination of] one is decreasing and the other is increasing steadily, and when the [magnitudes of] the Rsines of their declinations become equal, then it is vyatīpāta and not otherwise; [The same is called] vaidhṙta if the ayanas are the same and lāta when the hemispheres are the same.
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Ramasubramanian, K., Sriram, M. (2011). Vyatīpāta. In: Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-036-6_6
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