34(1 ON THE INDIAN, &C. 



ble face, or else as a couch. The position of one of 

 them (the most norLhei ly) is statecf in '26° or n']'^ N. 

 and 337° E. I suppose the bright star in the head of 

 Andromeda to be meant ; and the otber star to be the 

 one in the extremity of the wing of Pegasus {y Pegasi). 

 This agrees exactly with the 27th lunar mansion of the 

 Arabians, called Muakkher. For Ulugh Beg assigns 

 those stars to it (Hyde, p. 53. Com. p. 34. and 35.) 



XXVIir. The last of the twenty-eight asterisms i$ 

 jiamed lUvafi, and comprises thirty-two stars figured aS 

 a tabor. All authorities agree, that the principal star, 

 which should be the southernmost, has no latitude, 

 and two of them assert no longitude ; but some make 

 it ten minutes short of the origin of the ecliptick, viz. 

 359" 50'. This clearly marks the star on the ecliptick 

 in the string of the fishes (^ Piscium) ; and the ascer- 

 tainment of it is important in regard to the adjustment 

 of the Hindu sphere. 



The Arabick name of the 28th mansion, Risha, sig^ 

 nifying a cord, seems to indicate a star nearly in the 

 same position. But the constellation, as described by 

 JuHARi cited by Golius, consists of a multitude of 

 stars in the shape of a tish, and termed Belnulhut ; in 

 the navel of which is the lunar mansion : and Muham-- 

 MED oi' Tizin, with some others, also makes this lunar 

 mansion to be the same with Belnulhiit^ which appears, 

 however, to be the bright star in the girdle of Andro- 

 meda (|3 Andromedao; ; though others describe it as 

 the northern fish, extending, however, to the horns 

 of the ram (Hydk's Com. p. 10. 35, and p()). The 

 lunar mansion and Indian astensm are, therefore, not 

 re.concileable in this last mstance. 



The result of the comparison shows, I hope satis* 

 factorily, that the Liclian astcrismSj which mark the 

 divisions of ;he ecliptick, generally consist of nearly 

 the same stars, which constitute the lunar mansions of 



