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'^not, as was conjectured by Sir William Jones, the 

 star in the knee of Pollux (x\s. Res. 2. p. 298). 



The sixth lunar mansion is named by the Arabs, 

 tJanah ; and comprises two stars in the feet of the se- 

 cond twin, according to Ulugh beg, though others 

 make ittobe his shoulder <Hyde, Com. p. 7. and 44). 

 MuHAMMED of T'lz'm allots five stars to this constella- 

 tion; and the Kamus^ among various meanings of 

 Hanah, says, that it is a name for five stars in the left 

 arm of Orion ; remarking, also, that the lunar mansion 

 is named Tahayi, comprising three stars called Tahyat. 

 Either way however, the Indian and Arabian asterisms 

 appear in this instance irreconcileable. 



VII. The seventh Nacshatra, entitled Punarvasu^ 

 and represented by a house, or, according to a Sanscrit 

 work cited by Sir William Jones (As. Res. v. 1. p. 

 295), a bow, is stated by astronomers as including 

 four stars, among which the principal and eastern one 

 is 30e or 32" from the fifth asterism ; but placed by all 

 authorities in 6° N. This agrees with (3 Geminorum) 

 one of the two stars in the heads of the twins, which 

 together constitute the seventh lunar mansion Zlraay 

 according to Muhammed of Tusi and Muhammed of 

 Tizin and other Arabian authorities (Hyde on Ulugh 

 JgEG, p. 43). 



It appears from a rule of SanscrH grammar *, that 

 Pimarvasii, as a name for a constellation, is properly 

 dual, implying, as it may he su])posed, two stars. On 

 this ground, a conjecture may 'be raised, thai Punarvasu 

 originally comprised two stars, though four are now 

 assigned to it. Accordingly, that number is retained in 

 the Sacalya sanh'ita. 



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