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The twenty- first lunar mansion of the Arabians, 

 immed Baldah, comprises six stars, two of which are 

 placed by MuH AM MED of Tizin in Declination '21° & 

 iQ°. One of these must be a star in the head of Sagit- 

 tarius. Some authors, on the contrary, describe the 

 lunar mansion as destitute of stars (Hyde, Com. on 

 Ulugh Beg, p. 9.) At all events, the Hindu and 

 Arabian divisions appear, in this instance, to be but 

 imperfectly reconcileable. 



XXII. Three stars, figured as a triangle, or as the 

 nut of the floating Trapa, form the twenty- second aster- 

 ism, named Abhj'it ; which, in the modern Indian astro- 

 nomy, does not occupy an equal portion of the cclip- 

 tick. with the other Nacshatras^ but is carved out of the 

 contiguous divisions. Its place (meaning that of its 

 brightest star) is very remote from the Zodiack ; being 

 in 60° or 62° N. The longitude of its circle of decli- 

 nation, according to different authorities, is 260°, 20(3* 

 40', or 268°. Probably the bright star in the Lyre is 

 meant. It was shown to Dr. Hunter, at Ujjaymi for 

 the chief star in Ahhijii ; and the same was pointed out 

 to me, for the asterism, by a Hindu astronomer at this 

 place. 



The Arabian lunar mansion Zahih, consists of two 

 stars (some reckon four *) in the horns of Capricorn, 

 totally disagreeing with the Indian Nacshatra. 



XXIII. S'rava?idy the twenty-third Nacshatra, re- 

 presented by three footsteps, contains three stars, of" 

 which one, the middlemost, is by all authorities j)laced 

 in 30° N. but they differ as to its longitude ; the Surya 

 skid'hdnta placing it in 280**; Brahmegupta and thg 

 S'iromanii in 278*; and the Grahaldg'hava in 2/5" 



• UtuCB Beg, p, Qi. and Hyde's Com. 54. 

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