Did the hanuman chalisa speak about the distance to the sun? That’s a popular idea that a lot of people like to comment below my videos. So how true is it?

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - The Hanuman Chalisa
02:35 - Measuring the distance to the sun
04:02 - Parallax
06:04 - The Hanuman Chalisa Value
07:42 - Yojana

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Cassini's method:
http://tonic.physics.sunysb.edu/~dtea...
Surya Siddhanta:
https://ia800302.us.archive.org/22/it...


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