222 ' 01<r THE HIN^DU 



tipiied by IQ80000, the number of years in the 

 assumed cycle, and we shall have 



Now taking the nearest entire numbers (except 

 for Saturn, which, in order to encrease its motion 

 a little, we take the next greater number), and we 

 shall have 



From computation. Modern Hindu tables. 



Sun, 1080000 re vol. 1080000 re vol. 



Moon, 14438334 14438334 



Venus, 17555^1 1755591 



Mars, 574208 574208 



Jupiter, 91053 91053 ■ ■ 



Saturn, 36645 ■ 36645 



Having thus, I hope, fully and clearly demon- 

 strated the principles on which the Hindu artificial 

 systems of astronomy are founded, and shewn that, 

 according to these principles, the Surija Siddlu'nita 

 must have been written between seven and eight 

 hundred years ago, and at no other period what- 

 ever; it must now be obvious to every candid 

 mind, that the asserlions of the Edinburgh Re- 

 viewer are totally unfounded. 



The table exhibited in page 209, will shew how 

 much he must have been mistaken in his notions 

 with regard to the basis of calculation : For if there 

 was no such basis^ then the errors,- or differences 

 in that table, ought at every period to be the same, 



