Letters of Sir Wirttam Jones to Sauver Darts, Esq. 11 
TTS 
“A’rifnagar: 21 Febr. 1790. 
My dear Sir, 
Yesterday afternoon I sent Mr. Morris and Mr. Tucker the last proof of 
your paper on Indian Astronomy, and the whole will be completely printed 
and struck off in a few days. Want of leisure and weak eyes obliged me 
to resign to them the correction of the press, reserving only to myself the 
punctuation and the spelling of Sanscrit words. Mr. Morris will send you 
a perfect copy, and if you will have the goodness to make a list of errata, 
I will insert it in the general table at the end of the volume. There must 
be copper-plates of the figures: if Mr. Daniell could have etched them 
under your eye, it would have been better; but should he be detained up 
the country, either Alefounder or Brittridge shall etch or engrave them, 
when they can or will; but Brittridge is extremely dilatory, and has not 
yet finished your drawing of the medals found on the coast. I anticipate 
your triumph over M. Bailly, whose late work, I presume, you have read. 
His materials are full of errors to my knowledge, and you have, I doubt 
not, discovered many which escaped me. I beg leave to enclose a list of 
the 27 yoga stars in the order of the lunar mansions: the words are written 
in the form of the crude nouns, not in the nominative case, as A’yushma 
for A’yushman, &c. If you have leisure to send me a table of their longi- 
tudes, latitudes, and right ascensions according to the Hindus, it will be 
very useful to me. Excuse the dryness and brevity of this letter; but I 
have much on my hands, and no time to perform it, except what I snatch 
at intervals, when I have no public business ; and those intervals are rare. 
I am, dear Sir, with great regard, your ever faithful Serv! 
W. JONES. 
XIV. 
Pray how is Dheber deda written in Sanscrit ? 
Arifnagar 21 March 1790. 
I am infinitely obliged to you, my dear Sir, for your kind letter, for the 
table of the ydga stars, and for a very elegant drawing of the Indian eclip- 
tic, which I will study when I am released from business, whenever that 
may be. The passage in the Vardhasanhitd is not only curious, but of the 
C2 
