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'* eastward, and the ayanansa must be added ; and 



" when more, it moves westward, and the ayanansa 

 " must be subtracted. 



Commentary. " By the text, the ay ana bhagana is 

 tc understood to consist of 600 bhaganas (periods) in 

 ** a Maha Yug ; but some persons say, the meaning is 

 li thirty bhaganas only, and accordingly that there 

 " are 30,000 bhaganas. Also tfiat Bhascar Acharya 

 " observes, that, agreeably to what has been delivered 

 " by Surya, there are 30,000 bhaganas of the ayanansa 

 '* in a Calpa. This is erroneous ; for it disagrees 

 " with the Sasfras of the Rishis. The SacaJya San- 

 " hita states that the bhaganas of the Crantt pat a in 

 <c a Maha Yug are 600 eastward. The same is ob- 

 " served in the VaslsMha Shhlhanta ; and the rule 

 iC for determining the ayanansa is as follows : — The 

 " expired years divide by 600, of the quotient make 

 " the bhja, which multiply by three, and divide the 

 " product by ten. The meaning of Bhascar, Acha- 

 " rya was not, that Snrya gave 30,000 as the bhaganas, 

 <c of the ayanansa in a Calpa, the name he used being 

 * c Saura not Surya, and applied to some other book. 

 " From the naiansa is known the crantyansa, and 

 " from the crantijya the bhujajya, the arc of which 

 <% is the bhajansa of Surya, including the ayanansa : 

 " this for the first three months ; after which, for 

 " the next three months, the place of Surya, found by 

 " this mode of calculation, must be deducted from 

 '* six signs. For the next three months the place of 

 " Surya must be added to six signs, and for the last 

 " three months the place of Surya must be deducted 

 " from twelve signs. Thus, from the shadow may 

 " be computed the true place of Surya. For the 

 " same instant of time compute his place by the 

 " ahargana, from which will appear whether the 

 M ayanansa is to be added or subtracted. If the place 

 " found by the ahargana be less than the place 



