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from its own commencement, according to the Siaja 

 sidd'hdnta, or 37° 28' to 38° from the beginning q\' 

 Mesha, according to the Sidd'hdnta sirornani^ and 

 Crahaldghdva^ respectively. This longitude of the 

 circle of declination corresponds nearly with that of the 

 bright star in the Pleiades, which is 40° of longitude 

 distant from the principal star of Revati, 



The stars, indicated by Ulugh reg for Thurayydy 

 also correspond exactly with the Pleiades; and these 

 were pointed out to the Jesuit missionaries *, as they 

 have since been to every other inquirer, for the third 

 Nacshatra. If any doubt existed, Mytholoiry might 

 assist in determining the question ; for the Criifieds are 

 six nymphs, who nursed Scanda, the God of war, 

 named from these, his foster mothers, CA'iiTiCE'rA or 

 Sha'nma'tura. 



IV. We retain on our celestial globes the Arabick 

 name of the fourth lunar mansion Debardn (or with the 

 article, Aldebaran) : applied by us, however, exclu- 

 sively to the bright star called the Bull's-eye ; and 

 which is unquestionably the same with the principal 

 and eastern star of Rohin't, placed in 4^^ or 5° S. and 

 49§° E. by the Hindu writers on Astronomy* This 

 Nacshatra, figured as a wheeled carriage, comprises 

 five stars, out of the seven which the Greeks named 

 the Hyades. The Arabs, however, like the Hindus, 

 reckon five stars only in the asterism ; and Sir W. 

 Jones rightly supposed liiem to be in the head and 

 neck, of the Bull : they probably are 'a. ^ y o s Tauri, 

 agreeably to Mons. Bailly's, conjecture (Ast. Ind. p, 

 129). 



* Costar4'sHist. of Ast. p. 51. Baill/ Ast. Ind. p. 13-i.. 



