On the Astronomy of the Orientals. 169 
The lunar year they reckon 354 days, 22 gurris, | pull. The 
solar year they reckon 365 days, 15 gurris, 30 pulls, 22 peels, 
Indian time ;—60 peels making | pull, 60 pulls 1 gurri, and 60 
gurris 1 day. According to which the following table is con- 
structed, 
Peels. Pulls. Gurris. | English time. 
24 aleve ero ] second 
122 nse ale thd D sec. 
24 side. 6 oo a%s 10 sec. 
372 Hy oan Pl Slgeet 
50 sik. ea 20 sec. | 
75 li £355 eS sae, 
150 21 weay 1 minute 
790 121 pin 5 min. 
1500 25 stele 10 min. 
2250 bs ha Oa a A 15 min. 
3600 50H rage’ P20 min: 
4500 75 12 | 30 min. 
9000 150 22 1 hour 
18600 300 5 2 hours 
27000 450 7% 3 hours 
36900 600 16 4 hours 
45000 | 750 12! » hours 
54000 =: 960 15 6 hours 
81000 = 1350 224 9 hours 
‘| 108006 ~—-:1800 30 }2 hours 
216000 3600 60 1 day 
From this table it appears that the Indian year, of 365 days, 
15 gurris, 30 pulls, and 22} peels, is equal to 365 days, 6 hours. 
12 minutes, and 9 seconds of our time; and accords with our 
sidereal year nearly, which is stated at 365 days, 6 hours, 9 mi- 
nutes, and 14} seconds. The Indian lunar year, reckoned at 
354 days, 22 gurris, 1 pull, measures 354 days, 8 hours, 48 
minutes, 24 seconds, English time; which very nearly corresponds 
with that settled in our tables at 3854 days, S hours, 48 minutes, 
36 seconds.—See Ferguson’s Astronomy, chap. xxi. art.373. 
The lunar cycle, or period of 19 years, as also tha: called the 
Chaldean or ecliptic period, confessedly originated with the 
Eastern astronomers :—and that we maysee the agreement of the 
Oriental astronomers with our European calculators, | here insert 
the measure of 19 sidereal and lunar years after both accounts ; 
thus, 
Indian 
