DIVISIONS OF THE ZODIACK. 337 



ivhich comprises two stars (Hydf-i's Com. p. 8.) near 

 the lion's eye ; the northernmost being placed by Mu- 

 HAMMED of Tizhi in 24^ of N. declination (Hyde's 

 Com. p. 101). The Jesuit missionaries, if rightly 

 quoted by Costard (Hist, of x-\str. p. 51) made As'- 

 Jeshil correspond with the bright stars in the heads of 

 Castor and Pollux, too:ether with Procyon." This is 

 evidently erroneous. Sir William Jones's supposi- 

 tion, that uU'Usha might answer to the face and nam,e 

 of Leo, nearly concurs with the Arabian determination 

 of this lunar mansion, but disagrees with the place 

 assigned to the stars by Hindu astronomers. Bailly 

 committed the same mistake, when he affirmed, th.at 

 AsUsha is the Lion's head. (Astr. Ind. p. 328). 



X. The tenth asterism Mag ha contains, like the 

 last, five stars ; but which are figured as a house. The 

 principal or southern one has no latitude, and, accord- 

 ing to all authorities, has Vl^^ longitude. This is 



evidently Regulus (* Leonis) : which is exactly 1297 

 distant from the last star in Ri-valt. 



According to the Jesuits cited by Costard, 

 Mag ha answers to the lion's mane and heart ; and the 

 tenth lunar mansion of the Arabians, Jehhah, comprises 

 three (some say four) stars, nearly in the longitude of 

 the Lion's heart (Hyde's Ulugh Beg, p. 74. and 

 Com. p. 46). In this instance, therefore, the Indian 

 and Arabian divisions of the Zodiack comcide : and it 

 is owing to an oversight, that SrR William Jones 

 states the Nacshatra as composed of stars in the Lion's 

 leg and haunch. It appears to consist oi a. y C^ r, and v 

 Leonis. 



XI. Two stars, constituting the eleventh Nacshatra, 

 or preceding PhaJguniy which is represented by a couch 

 or bedstead, are determined by the place of the ch\ti 

 star (the northernmost according to the Surya sidd'* 



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