336 ON THE INDIAN, &C. 



It may be further observed, that the seventh lunar 

 mansion of the Arabs is named Zirad ul ased a,ccoYd ng 

 to Juhar'i and others cited by Hyde ^^Com. on Ulugh 

 BEG, p. 44) ; and that the Kamiis makes this term to 

 be the name of eight stars in the form of a bow. 



Upon the whole, the agreement of the Indian and 

 Arabian constellations is here apparent, not*^ithstand- 

 ing a variation in the number of the stars ; and I con- 

 clude, that Punarvasu comprises, conformably with 

 Sir Wilmam Jones's supposition (As. Res. vol. 2. p. 

 299), stars in the heads of the twins ; viz, x, 0, Gemi- 

 norum ; and which were indicated to Dr. Hunter by 

 a Hindu astronomer at UJJajiH; to which, perhaps, 

 $ and T may be added to complete the number of four. 



VIII. Piishya, the eighth asterism, is described as an 

 arrow ; ard consists of three stars, the chief of which, 

 being also the middlemost, has no latitude, and is 12oor' 

 13" distant from the seventh asterism, being placed by 

 /f/W?< astronomers in 106° of longitude. This is evi- 

 dently Cancri ; and does not differ widely from the 

 eighth lunar mansion Net-hrah, which, according 

 to Ulugh beg and others (Hype's Com. p. 45;, 

 consists of two stars, including the nebula of Cancer, 

 The Indian constellation comprises two other stars, be- 

 sides ^ Cancri, wiiich are perhaps y and ^^ of the same 

 constellation; and Sir William Jones's conjecture, 

 that it consists of stars in the body and qlaws of Cancer, 

 was not far from the truth. 



IX, The ninth asterism, A's'Usha, contains five stars 

 figured as a potter's wheel, and of which the principal 

 or eastern one is placed in 7° S. and, according to dif- 

 fjrent tables, 107% 108°, or I0^°, E, This appears 

 to be intended for the bright star in the southern 

 claw of Cancer (« Cancri,) and cannot be re- 

 conciled with the lunar mansion Tarf or Turfah^ 



