varāhamihira | वराहमिहिर | varAhamihira
varāha—mihira | वराह—मिहिर | m. N. of an astronomer (son of Āditya-dāsa and author of the Bṛhaj-jātaka, Bṛhat-saṃhitā, Laghu-jātaka, Yoga-yātrā, Pañca-siddhāntikā; in the last of these works he takes 506 A.D. as the epoch of his calculations), IW. 176 &c.