578 ON THE ANTIQUITY OF 



the Sun, Moon, and planets, are assumed to have 

 been in a line of mean conjunction, in the first point 

 of Aries at the commencement of the Cali 2/ug, on 

 the meridian of Lanca, and the mean annual mo- 

 tions, by both, are as follows : 



Jatok Arnob. 

 Qs. 0" 0' 0'' 0' 

 4 12 46 40 47 

 1 24 45 18 1 

 7 i5 11 

 6 11 24 9 36 1 



1 21 6 



Sun 



Moon 



Mercury 



Venus 



Mars - 



Jupiter 



Saturn 



3 05279 



3'"M4JI 

 Oyi57«l 



KO 4.Q Jl'-^ 



^•^ ^" S6R)(i9iCi.3 

 18048499 

 8ii240»J 

 135<)n91880' 



^ 34i0li004837 



O l2 i2 50 20 



Surya Siddhdnta. 

 QP- 0° 0' O" 0'" 

 4 12 46 40 48 

 1 24 45 18 

 7 15 II 52 48 

 G 11 24 9 36 

 I 21 6 

 12 12 50 24 



Annual motion of the Moon's apogee. 

 l^y ih<t Jatok Ariioh - P10»4l' 0"54'"-^ 



By the Sury a Skld/idnta 1 10 41 54 



Annual motion of the Moon's node. 

 By the Jaio/c Amob - i9 21 li 24 ^^ 



By the Siay a Siddhdnta 19 21 11 24 



Length of the year. 



Ds. do. I II HI IV 



Bv the Jatok Ar?i()b - 365 15 31 31 24 25 jiij 

 By tht Sitrija S'iddhdnta 365 15 31 31 24 



73. Now comparing the quantities of the mo- 

 tions, &c. deduced from these works with each other, 

 it will evidently appear, that one person must have 

 been the author of both : for, though the quantities 

 are not exactly the same, yet the diiferences are too 

 small to admit of a supposition ot their being the 

 works of tvv'o different persons. In fact, the small 

 difference between the Jatok Arnob and SiayaSidd- 

 hdnta, appears to be owing to the system being com- 

 pleted in the one, and not in the other For, if we 

 '^ multiply 



