564. OM THE ANTIQUITY OF 



by com pleat weeks, to preserve the order of the 

 days ot the week from the commencement of the 

 Calpa. 



47. The revolutions of the Moon in the cycle of 

 1080000 years corresponding to the number of days 

 above deduced = 14438321 ; but this number does 

 not s^ive the relative positions of the Sun and Moon in 

 A. D. 1799, nearer than 3' 20",5 of the truth, which 

 might be deemed sufficiently accurate by a Hindu as- 

 tronomer ; but to render this still more correct, I find 

 bv computation that two revolutions must be ad- 

 ded ; and that the number of days in the cycle, must 

 be encreased by sixty-three, or nine weeks j so that 

 the adjusted number of revolutions will then be 

 14438323, and the days corresponding = 394479135 : 

 from which, we obtain the relative positions of the 

 Sun and Moon with respect to each other, within 6" 

 of what the European tables make them ; a degree 

 of accuracy more than necessary in a Hindu system. 



48. The number of mean solar days in the cycle 

 of 1080000 vears, being thus finally adjusted, we get 

 the length of the year = '^= ^6b''- 15""; 30' 27'-; 

 and the instant at which the Sun enters Aries in the 

 Hindu sphere in A. D. 1799, according to mean 

 motions = ^i:^^- = 1789766"^- 2^"" 45' from 

 the commencement of the Cali yug. The 

 corrections introduced above (§ 47), make the year 

 come out a little longer, and the time of its com- 

 mencement somewhat later than M'^e deduced from 

 the position of Chitra [h 39) ; but this is of no 

 consequence whatever, the principal object in the 

 Hindu astronomy being to obtain the relative posi- 

 tions and motions of the Sun and Moon sufficiently 

 correct, for calculating the times of their conjunc- 

 tions, oppositions, and eclipses. 



49. The 



