DIVISIONS OP THE ZODIACK. 33g 



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Awwa, the thirteenth lunar mansion of the Arabs, is 

 described as containing the same number of stars, si- 

 tuated under Virgo, and so disposed as to resemble the 

 letter AHf. They are placed by Ulugji Bbq in tho 

 wing (Hyde's Ulugh Beg, p. 80), 



In this instance the Indian and Arabian divisions of 

 the Zodiack have nothing in common but the number 

 of stars and their agreement of longitude, h appears, 

 however, from a passage cited from Sufi by Hyde 

 (Com. p. 82), that the Arabs have also considered the 

 constellation of Corvus as a mansion of the moon.) 



XIV. The fourteenth Nacshalra^ figured as a pearl, 

 is a single star named Ch'itra. It is placed by the Surya 

 sidd'hanta in '2° S. and ISO'^ E ; and by Bkahmegupta, 

 the- Siromani ?ind Graha Laghuva.) in 1 ^ or 2° S. and 

 183° E. This agrees with the virgin's spike (a Vir« 

 ginis ;) and Hindu astronomers have always pointed out 

 that star for Chitta. The same star constitutes the 

 fourteenth lunar mansion of the Arabs, named from it 

 Smac 111 adztl. 1L.E Gentil's conjecture *, that the 

 fourteenth nacshatra comprises the two stars -^and i Vir- 

 ginia was entirely erroneous. And Mqns. Bailly wa? 

 equally incorrect in placing 9 Virginia in the middle of 

 this asterism (Astr. Ind, p. 227). 



XV. Another single star constitutes the fifteenth 

 Nacshatra. Swaii, represented by a coral bead. The 

 Surya suUThanta, Brahmegupta, the S'lromuni and 

 Graha Jaghava^ concur in placing it in 37° N, They 

 differ one degree in the longitude of its circle of decli- 

 nation; three of these autliorities making it i^Q""^, an4 

 the other 1 QS'". 



, .The only conspicuous star, nearly In the situation 

 thus assigned to S-jcati^ 'and the Indian astronomer* 



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