320 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
Cf. 
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“ufastana: wey aifeaae Gaza: | 
gaan ateyar aiiaagiaratrafaaar: | 
Waa HTS ats Aya aAATEM | 
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Wa Ula weaae HIfAATTTTaTTa: | 
anfaufantated oat warfe wy ATA 
vatat ufa ateqtfearem ufauaaa |” 
(Chapter 6, verses 75-77). 
From a consideration of all these Siddhantas we find that 
the slow annual motion of the equinoctial points along the 
ecliptic, is reekoned at 54, 57: 615 and 60 seconds by Indian 
astronomers, and that the movement is not always retrogres- 
sive but that it is also progressive as soon as the farthest limit 
of 27 degrees (or 30 degrees according to some) is reached 
either way. A great Indian astronomer has stated this fact 
very nicely thus :— 
“> . eG, ~ 
ARAHAA YT UATE (Ro) feaTAe | 
ufaatarqatad faqareaa Haq | 
fayara aa aa ara featfamt i” 
_ Thus the 3rd of Chaitra is the farthest limit of retrogres- 
sion and the 27th of Baisakha, the farthest limit of progression. 
Thus after some 300 or 350 years from now, the equinoctial 
points would be approaching Aries again and thus receding 10 
movement. Thus we see that according to the Indian astro- 
nomers the phrase ‘ precession of equinoxes’ is a misnomer, the 
recession of equinoxes also being an equally well-founded phe- 
nomenon. As a matter of fact we have actually a faint echo 
of such a thing from Varahamihira’s, Brihat Samhita :— 
“armarts tfangquraad eaafasaa | 
qi aerhrerata Fate uaa |” 
(Ch, 3, verse 1). 
which shows that in such days the vernal equinox took place 
on the 24th of Baisakh. ; 
In KaSyapa-Samhita also we hear of an identical fact. 
“auTat<zhaa art: wfasia aaraed | 
azitaeraizaqra |” 
