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«' but the amount was still added, until, at the end 

 " of 1800 years more, it was diminished to nothing. 

 M Third pa da : The ay anon sa for the next 1800 years 

 f* was deducted; and the amount deducted at the 

 " end of that term was twenty-seven degrees. Fourth 

 " pa da : The amount deduction diminished ; and at 

 M the end of the next term of 1 800 years, there was 

 M nothing either added or subtracted. The Muriis % 

 " having observed these circumstances, gave rules ac- 

 ** cordinglv : if in the savan days of a Ma ha Yug 

 '* there are 600 bhaganas, what will be found in the 

 <l ahargana proposed ? which statement will produce 

 M bhaganas, sines, Sec; reject the bhaganas, and 

 u take the bhuja of the remainder, which multiply 

 cc by three and divide by ten, because there are four 

 " padas in the bhagana ; for if in 90 there is a cer- 

 " tain number found as the bhuja, when the bhuja 

 " degrees are twenty-seven, what will be found? 

 " and the numbers twenty-seven and ninety used in 

 " the computation being in the ratio of three to ten, 

 «•' the latter are used to save trouble. 



" There is another method of computing the aya- 

 ct nansa : The crantl-pata-gati is taken at one minute 

 ** per year ; and according to this rule the ayanansa 

 u increases to twenty-four degrees ; the time neces- 

 te sary for which, as one pad a is 1440 years. This is 

 l( ihe gad of the nacshatras of the crant'i mandala* 



" The nacshatra Revati rise where the narl ?nan- 

 " dala and the cshitija intersect * ; but it has been 



* This can happen only when there is no ayanansa. The nari 

 mandala is the equator. The yoga ftar of Revati is in the last of 

 Mina (Pisces) or, which is the same, in the first of Mesba (Aries) 

 and has no latitude in the Hindu tables. Hence, from the ayan- 

 ansa and time of the beginning of the Hindu year, may be known 

 their zodiacal stars. Revati is the name of the twenty-seventh 

 lunar mansion, which comprehends the- lad 13° 20' of Mina. 

 When the ajanansa v/as o, as at the creation, the beginning of the 



