﻿30O ON THE ANTIQUITY «P 



Wherever the Indian drawing differs from the me- 

 morial verse in the Retnamala, 1 have preferred the au- 

 thority of the writer to that of the painter, who has 

 drawn some terrestrial things with so little similitude, 

 that we must not implicitly rely on his representation 

 of objects merely celestial. He seems particularly to 

 have erred in the stars of Dhanishfa. 



For the assistance of those who may be inclined 

 to re-examine the twenty-seven constellations with a 

 chart before them, I subjoin a table of the degrees 

 to which the nacshatras extend respectively from the 

 first star in the asterism of Aries, which we now see 

 near the beginning of the sign Taurus, as it was placed 

 in the ancient sphere. 



N. D. M. ST. D. M. N. D. M. 



133 . 20'. XIX. 256° 20'. 



I46 3 . 40'. XX. 26<5°. 40'. 



160 . o'. XXI. aSo° c. 



1 73 . 20'. XXII. 293 . 20'. 



1 8 6°. 40'. XXIII. 306° 40. 



200 . o'. XXIV. 320 . c'. 



213°. 20'. XXV. 333 . 20'. 



226 . 40'" XXVI. 346 40'. 



240 . o'. XXVII. 360 . o. 



The asterisms of the first column are in the figns- 

 of Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo ; those of the second, 

 in Fir go, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius; and those of 

 the third, in Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries. 

 We cannot err much therefore, in any series 

 of three constellations; for, by counting T3 20' for- 

 wards and backwards, we find the spaces occupied by 

 the two extremes, and the intermediate space belongs 



