﻿232 ON THE ASTRONOMICAL COMPUTATIONS 



•* be computed ; but from the number of years so 

 *' found, must be made a deduction of one hundred 

 " limes four hundred and seventy-four divine years, 

 " or of that product multiplied by three hundred and 

 * ; sixty for human years, that being the term of Brah- 

 M mas employment in the creation ; after which the 

 ** planetary motions commenced. 



" Sixty Vicalas make one Cala, sixty Colas one 

 * c Bhaga, thirty Bhagas one Rasi, and there are 

 " twelve Rasis in the Bhagaria *. 



" «f« In one Vug* Surya, Budha, and Svcra perform 

 " 4^20000 Madhyama revolutions through the Zodiac. 

 " Mavgala, Vrihaspatl^vA Sani make the same num- 

 ** ber of Sighra revolutions through it ; Chandra makes 

 " 57753336 \ Madhyama revolutions; Mangala 

 '.' 22,96832 Madhyama revolutions ; Budha* s Sighras 

 " are 17937060; Vrihaspatis Madhyamas 364220; 

 *' S 7 ucra's Sighras 7022376 ; Sani's Madhyama s are 

 ie 1 46568. The Chandrochcha revolutions are 488203 ; 

 " the retrograde revolutions of the Chandrapata are 

 " 232238. 



'* The time contained between sunrise and sunrise 

 " is the Bhwni Saian day : the number of those days 



* The division of the Bbagana, or Zodiac, into signs, de- 

 grees, &c. __ 



\ Surya the Sun ; Budha, Mercury ; Sucra, Venus ; Mangala, 

 Mars; F'rihaspati, Jupiter; Sani, Saturn; Chandra, the Moon; 

 the Chandra Ucbcba, or Chandrochcha, the Moon's apogee ; Chan- 

 i a Fata, the Moon's ascending node. The Madhyama revolu- 

 tions of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and the Sighra revolutions of 

 Venus and Mercury, answer to their revolutions about the Sun. 



t £17753336— 4320000=53433336 lunar months, or lunations 

 in a rVg* . _ D.D. P. 



S IC7*'QI?823 r t 



and J- 7 ' ■ - — =29 31 co, 6, Sec. 

 53433336 ' • 



D. H. M. S. 

 in each mean lunation, or in English time zg . 12 .44 . 2 ^j'"^'"'. 

 ? 3.43 3 336— 5 1840000= 1 593336 Adhi or intercalary lunar months 

 in 4320000 sojar sydereal years. 



