﻿ON INDIAN CHRONOLOGY. 391 



in the long and short verses, were twenty-four to 

 twenty, instead of thirty to twenty seven : 



Venor apros tigridasque, et, pessima monstra, tyrannos : 

 Cerva mali quid agunt herbivoru-xjue lepus ? 



I now exhibit the five stanzas of Varaha in Euro- 

 pean characters, with an etching of the two first, 

 which are the most important, in the original Dcva- 

 nagarl : 



Asleshardhaddacshinamuttaramayananraverdhanisht'hadyan 

 Nunan cadachiddsidyenoctan purva sastreshu. 

 Sampratamay anan savituh carcatacady an mrigaditaschanyat : 

 Cctabhave vicritih praryacshapericshanair vyactih, 

 Durast'hachihnavedyadudaye'stamaye'piva sahasransoh, 

 Ch'hayapravesanirgamachihnairva mandale mahati. 

 Aprapya macaramarco vinivritto hanti saparan yamyan, 

 Carcatacamasanprapto vinivrittaschottaran saindrin. 

 Uttaramayanamatitya vyavrittah cshemasasya vriddhicarah, 

 Pracritist'haschapyevan vicritigatir bhayacridushnansuh. 



Of the five couplets thus exhibited, the following 

 translation is most scrupulously literal : 



" Certainly the southern solstice was once in the 

 *' middle o^Aslesha ; the northern in the first degree of 

 " Dhanishfha, by what is recorded in former Sastras. 

 " At present, one solstice is in the first degree of Car- 

 " cala, and the other in the first of Macara. That 

 " which is recorded not appearing, a change must 



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