286 HINDOO ASTRONOMY. 



Name?. Kepramitd hj 



1 . Aswini, a horse's head. 



2. Bharani, »he Yoni. 



; 3. C.Tltica, a knife, or razor. 



'4. Rohini, a wheeled carriage. 



5. Mrigasiras, an antelope's head. 



«. Ardra, a gem. 



7. Punanasu, a house. 



8. Pusht/a, an arrow. 



9. Aslesha a potter's wheel. 



10. Mag'ha, a house. 



11. Phalguni (preceding), couch, or bedstead. 



12. Plialguni (following), a bed. 



13. Hasta, a hand. 



14. Chitra, a pearl. 



15. Swati, a coral bead. 



10. Visacha, a fe.stoon of leaves. 



17. Anuradka, a row of oblations. 



18. Jyesktha, a ring, or earring. 



19. Mula, a liori's tail, or a conch. 



20. Ashadka, a conch, or'elephanl's tooth." 



2). Ashadha (following), an elephant's tooth, or a bed. 



22. Ahhijit, a triangular nut . 



S3. Sravana, three Ibotsleps. 



24. Dhanishtha, a drum, or tabor. 



25. Satabhisha, a circle. 



„ „, . , ^ a couch, or bed, or figure wtth 



26. Bhadrapada, ) two faces. 



„ „, , . ,r 11 ■ N i a twin, or person with a double 



27. Bhadrapada (followmg), ? ^^^^ '^j. ^f^g „ ^ouch. 



28. Revati, a labor. 



Mr. Colebrooke has compared the nacsliatras of the Hin- 

 doos with the manzels of the moon or lunar mansions of 

 the Arabians ; and he has shown that the Indian aster- 

 isms, which mark the divisions of their echptic, generally 

 consist of the same stars that constitute the lunar mansions 

 of the Arabians ; but, in a few instances, they differ essen- 

 tially ; and hence again it is natural to infer that the Indian 

 and Greek zodiacs must have been derived from the same 

 source. 



Sir William Jones had, at an earlier period, given a de- 

 scription of the Indian zodiac, and the names of the nacslia- 

 tras : he makes them to be only twenty-seven ; however, 

 he observes, that in a representation of these fanciful signs 

 there is inserted a constellation of three stars, called Abhijit 

 in their nuptial ceremonies, for some astrological purpose ; 

 this is one of the nacshatras in Mr. Colebrooke's enumera- 

 tion : so that, on the whole, both agree. The names of the 



