ASTRONOMICAL LABOURS OF JAYASINHA. 1»1 



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difficult problems ; by 

 the aid of the fupreme 

 artificer he obtained a 

 thorough knowledge of 

 its principles and rules. 

 — He found that the cal- 

 culation of the places of 

 the ftars as obtained 

 from the tables in com- 

 mon ufe, iuch as the 

 new tables of Seid 

 Goorganee andlvHA- 

 c an ee, and tie Tufjiee- 

 lat - Mula - Chand • slk- 

 ber-JIiahee^ and the 

 Hindu books, and the 

 European tables, in ve- 

 ry many cafes, give 

 them widely different 

 from thofe determined 

 by obfervation : efpe- 

 cially the appearance of 

 the new moons, the 

 computation of which 

 does not agree with ob- 

 fervation. 



' Seeing that very im- 

 portant affairs both re- 

 garding religion and 

 the adminiitration of 

 empire depend upon 

 theie ; and that in the 

 time of the riling and 

 letting of the planets, 

 and the feafons of 

 eclipfes of the fun and 

 moon, many considera- 

 ble difagrcements, of a 

 fimilar nature, were 

 found ; he represented 



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