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Stated for the asterism J'lsa/ha^ is censured by Sir 

 W. Jones, under an impression, that all the Nacsha- 

 tras must be SDuglit within the Zt^diack. The informa- 

 tion, received by Father Souciet, does appear to have 

 been erroneous ; but the same mistake was committed 

 by a native astronomer, who showed to me the same 

 constellation for fls/ichd ; and the Nacsliatras are 

 certainly not restricted to the neighbourhood of the 

 ecliptick. 



XV^II. Four stars, (or, according to a difFerenw 

 reading, three,) described as a row of oblations, that 

 is, in a rii{ht line, constitute the seventeenth Nacshatra 

 named Anunurhii. Here also, authorities differ little 

 as to the situation of the chief and middlemost star-; 

 which is placed in 3°, or 2°, or 1°45' S. and in 224=^ or 

 224'^ o E. This must intend the star near the head of 

 the scorpion {^ Scorpionis) ; and the asterism probably 

 comprises ,3 !? tt and ^ Scorpionis. 



The seventeenth lunar mansion of the Arabs called 

 Iclil or Icidujcbhah^ contains four (some say three, and 

 others six *,) stars lying in a straight line. Those, 

 assigned by Ull'gh Beg (Hyde, p. 87.) for this 

 mansion, are |3 ov tt Scorpionis. 



Here the Indian and Arabian divisions appear to 

 concur exactly ; and Sir W. Jones (As. Res. 2. p. '200), 

 as \\ell as the Missionaries cited by Costard (Hist. 

 Astr. p. 51), have apparently understood the same 

 stars ; though the latter extend the Nacshatra to the 

 constellation Serpentarius. 



XVI II. J\esMha^ the eighteenth Nacshatra, com- 

 prises three stars figured as a ring. In regard to this, 



• HxnE's Com. p. 51. 

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