ag eg SP _e  — 
nlf 
a 
1923.] The Conception of the Indian Astronomers. 321 
In Parasara-Samhita we have also an identical record :— 
“aay afaarara Utanred axa: forfgre: |” 
and also, “gTwe aTatatsyearaa |” 
( HEA-AMT-Ga-TaTUL-Farq ) 
Indeed we nowhere hear of a Dakshinadyana beginning 
with ‘Magha* which could have at once established that the 
limit of precession is not actually 27° or at best 30° (as accord- 
ing to some school, a faint trace of which is preserved in the 
tradition referred to by Sumatiharsha in his commentary on 
Karana-Kutihala 
shall now conclude my paper with a word about the 
zero-libration year. As I have already noticed such a year 
was either 420 or 421 or 434 or 444 or 445 Saka era i.e. either 
498 or 499 or 512 or 522 or 523 A.D. according to the 
different authorities. In my estimate, such a year was very 
probably 499 A.D. since it answers Kaliyuga 3,600, which 8 
(1,800 x 2) ie. the farthest limit of 27° being reached and again 
traced back quite in accordance with the sayings of the ancient 
Siddhantas and also because it is exactly the 120th part o 
the Kaliyuga period and precisely the 1200th part of a 
Chatur-yuga or Maha-yuga period. 
DBP DPA BLIP 
