﻿THE INDIAN ZODIAC. 297 



That is, « three, three, six ; five, three, one ; 

 c< four, three, five; five, two, two; five, one, one; 

 u four, four, three ; eleven, four, and three ; three, 

 " four, an hundred ; two, two, thirty-two. Thus have 

 " the stars of the lunar constellations, in the order 

 M as they appear, been numbered by the wise.'* 



If the stanza was correctly repeated to me, the 

 two Asharas are considered as one asterism, and 

 AbliijH as three feparate stars ; but I suspect an error 

 in the third line, because divibana, or two and five 

 would suit the metre as well as bdhlrama ; and because 

 there were only three Vedas in the early age, when, it 

 is probable, the stars were enumerated, and the tech- 

 nical verse composed. 



Two lunar stations, or mansions, and a quarter are 

 co-extensive, we see, with one sign ; and nine stations . 

 correspond with four signs. By counting, therefore, 

 thirteen degrees and twenty minutes from the first star 

 in the head of the Ram, inclusively, we find the 

 whole extent of Aszuini, and shall be able to ascertain 

 the other stars with sufficient accuracy ; but first let 

 us exhibit a comparative table of both Zodiacs, de- 

 noting the mansions, as in the Varanes Almanac, by 

 the first letters or syllables of their names : 



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