318 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX. 
660 ‘ = 
precession of ( ares—so5; ) oF 67g. minutes or roughly 583 
seconds. 
The Commentator Sumati Harsha further tells us how 
there were only two Schools existent; the one counting 60 
seconds and the athas 54 seconds as the average annual libra- 
tio Thus :— 

“wat waaimiat ofaaa waaRaaifual sugei aaa 

gcATaaiae faaeat (8°) waf | sara ufsaw aqUyTT 

fanart (us) Saad ama anfaueur (R90) aeAraatay 

x 
wage” etc. 
9. Graha-laghava :—(Ganesa Daivajna) (1442 Saka or 
A.D.). 
This author clearly states that there happens a libration 
of 60 secondsevery year. According to him the libration was 
zero in 444 Saka, i.e. 522 A.D. 
“are Tye: B-caAEaT WASTATAU |” 
(Ch. 2, verse 7). 
In the section on Ahargananayana the author has ‘qj=at7a'- 
faara iweq’ etc. which at once reveals that his work was 
written about 1442 8. or 1520 A.D. 
The Commentator Visvanatha Daivajfia (son of Divakara 
Daivajfia) who wrote his Udahriti commentary on Graha- 
laghava in 1534 Saka or 1612 A.D. says in his note on this 
7th verse that there were only two schools existent —one coun- 
ting 54 seconds and the other 60 seconds as the average 
annual libration. Thus :— 
: ° ar = 
“aa: @-cagfefa aarti gefan aaqem-wa-ae: WLATAFT 
waa gafasafa as ufeq ua aatowa what Wa 
apfagdgn: waAwatadiae, sfeq wa weETETTs 
(as)fanat sade ama anfamaar’ (29) Wal 
waa” ete. 
10. Jataka@rnava:—(By Varahamihira the third) (1450 
Saka-or 1528 A.D. 
e author of this work is known as Varahamihira He 
is the second astronomer Varahamihira of India, if the author 
of Brihat Samhita is counted as the first. But sometimes 
the celebrated Varahamihira of the sixth century is reckon a 
as the second ; in that case, of course, this Varahamihira woul 
