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determined the latitiule, longitude, and right ascension 

 of each, it might be useful to exhibit the list of them : 

 but at present I can only subjoin the names of twenty- 

 seven Yogas, or divisions of the Ecliptic. 



Vishcambha. Ganda. Parigha. 



Priti. Vriddhi. Siva. 



Ayushnat, Dhruva. Siddha. 



Sauhhagya Vyaghata, Sadhya. 



Sobhana. Hershana, Suhha. 



Atiganda. Fi/jra. Sucra. 



Sucarman. Asrij. Brahman, 



Dhriti. Vyatipata. Indra. 



Sula. Variyas. Vaidhritn 



Having shown in what manner the Hindus arrange 

 the Zodiacal stars with respect to the sun and moon, 

 let us proceed to our principal subject, the antiquity of 

 that double arrangement. In the first place, the Brah- 

 mans were always too proud to borrow their science 

 from the Greeks, Arabs, Moguls, or any nation of 

 Mlechclihas, as they call those who are ignorant of 

 the Vedas, and have not studied the language of the 

 Gods. They have often repeated to me the fragment 

 of an old verse, which they now use proverbially, na 

 Tiicho yai\anatparah, or no base creature can beloiver than 

 a Yavan ; by which name they formerly meant an Ionian 

 or Greek, and now mean a Mogul, or generally, a Musel- 

 man. When I mentioned to different Pandits, at several 

 times, and in fevcral places, the opinion ot Montucla, 

 they could not prevail on themselves to oppose it by 

 serious argument j but some laughed heartily ; others, 

 with a sarcastic smile, said it was a pleasant imagina- 

 tion ; and all seemed to think it a notion bordering 

 on phrenzy. In fact, although the figures of the 



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