232 ON THE HINDU 



Others, the following names, viz. Vva's, Ga'lava, 



ASWATTHAMAN, CaUSICA, Di'PTIMA'n, Cr1(PA, 

 and RfSHYAS'RINGA*, 



Having- thus fully and clearly proved the truth 

 of the ancient systems, it is unnecessary to pro- 

 ceed farther in the way of comparisons; nor in- 

 deed could we, as the fourth period ended shortly 

 after. 



We shall, therefore, now proceed to some of the 

 observations that have been left us by Para'sara, 

 Garga, and others of the ancients, which will 

 enable us to judge with more certainty of the 

 actual time in which they lived, as well as of the 

 progress then made in the science of astronomy in 

 India, 



It appears, from what is stated in the Pdrdsari 

 Sanhita, relative to the commencement of the 

 six Hindu seasons, that the solstitial colure had 

 passed through the first point of Dhanishtlia^ 

 and the middle of AsleshA, while the equinoctial 

 colure cut the tenth degree of Bkarani, and 3" 20' 

 of Visdclid. 



The same positions of the colures are also given 

 in a little treatise on ancient astronomy, annexed 

 to one of the Vedds, in the possesion of Mr. Cole- 

 BROOKE, which he obligingly lent me, th^ sixth 

 verse of which runs thus ■ 



* la each IVfanwantara, down to the fourteenth, only a few 

 qames are given us in the present Purdnas, which seem to 

 have been extracted from some larger works, that are not now tq 

 ))e found t 



