﻿OF THi: HINDUS, &c. 2S5 



of tlie seasons according to tlie Innar months. He 

 proves it by quoting a textot'the Tdittiriya Yajurvt- 

 da, and afcerwards cites tlie foliowing passage from 

 Baudhay'axa respecting tlie seasons measured by 

 solar-sidereal time, " M'lna Meshcqior Misha Vri 

 shabhayor va rasantah," &c. Va^anta corrtsponds 

 with M:na and Mds/ia, or with Mcsha and P^rlsha,* 

 &c. It should be observed, that the secondnry 

 lunar month, which begins and ends v.ith tull- 

 moon, cannot be here meant ; because this mode of 

 reckoning has never been universal; and the use of 

 it is limited to countries situated to the northward 

 of the Viudhya range ot'liills.as I learn from the fol^ 

 lowing passage of the Tricdnd'a mandatm. *' The 

 lunar month also is of two sorts, commencing either 

 with tli£ light fr)rtnight, or with the dark one. 

 Some do not admit the month which begins with the 

 dark fortnight ; and even by them who do, it is not 

 admitted on the south of the Vind'hya mountains.'' 



