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Dhirendranath Mukhopadhyaya (1930) published a paper entitled “The Evection and the Variation of the Moon in Hindu Astronomy” wherein he showed that the Hindu astronomer Mañjula knew of a lunar correction which is equivalent to the deficit of the equation of the centre and the evection. P. C. Sengupta (1932) published another paper entitled “Hindu Luni-solar Astronomy” in which, among other things, he considered various formulae regarding this dual correction as given by Mañjula (932), Śrīpati (1039), and Candra Śekhara Siṃha (latter half of the 19th century).
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Kolachana, A., Mahesh, K., Ramasubramanian, K. (2019). The evection and the deficit of the equation of the centre of the Moon in Hindu astronomy. In: Kolachana, A., Mahesh, K., Ramasubramanian, K. (eds) Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7326-8_33
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