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likely that it should do so with regard to the oldest of them 
either from the view-point of avoiding the detection of similar 
passages or from the stand point of extorting greater reverence 
and admiration. There are thus to be found innumerable 
passages in Suryva-Siddhanta which cool deliberation would 
show to be onl, the improved editions of certain Soma passages, 
e.g. 
(i) Soma :— 
‘avatatfa aissnfseaar Saar: |” 
(Spastadhikara Ch, verse 4). 
Survva :— 
‘araPaatsg¢ifamal Suafaeaa: |’ 
(Ch. 2, 17). 
(ii) Soma :~— 
BITS AMAA WAM | 
(Spasta Ch, verse 4) 
Saryya :-— 
es 
FSA VSAM TEAMS: | 
(Ch. 2, 17,). 
(iii) Soma :— 
aa ufesyt: HAT TAATAA! | 
(Spasha Ch. verse 15). 
Stryya ‘ce 
Pideafeuime waa: ePaatesT 
(Ch. 2, verse 34). 
(iv) Soma :— 
° eS ee ee 
MARAT FZ: BL: GAT: TIAL: | 
(Spasta Ch. verse 16). 
ba e g 
Baal saTRa: TT BUT BAT AAMT: | 
(Ch. 2, verse 35). ete. 
A.D.), 
In the days of Varaha-Mihira, the vernal and autumnal 
equinoxes took place on the last days of Chaitra and Aswin 
respectively. So that the ‘ Kranti’ (Declination) was then zero. 
Thus he save :— 
