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The above verse defines the mandakendrahārakas of the planets. It may be recalled that the mandakendra is the difference between the planet and its mandocca (apogee). The mandakendra-guṇakāras and the mandakendrahārakas determine the successive approximations to the rate of motion of the mandakendra.
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Pai, V., Ramasubramanian, K., Sriram, M.S., Srinivas, M.D. (2018). Obtaining the hārakas for the planets. In: Karaṇapaddhati of Putumana Somayājī. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6814-0_4
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