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In addition to the Greek words above enumerated, the following 

 occur in the verses quoted in Mr. Whish's paper, viz. 



Heli, "HXioc, The Sun. 



Heman, 'EppriQ, Mercury. 



A'ro, "Apr/c, Mars. 



Kono, Kpovoc, Saturn. 



A'sphujit, ' A(j>po^iTTj 9 Venus. 



Jyok, Zeve* Jupiter. 



For Iyok, however, Madhab Ram's edition reads Iyau : and Bapu 

 Deo says it should be Ijyau, making with the preceding word (accord- 

 ing to the rules of Sandhi, or combination of letters) Vachasdmpatijyau, 

 (a"^intff?T52n)> Deui S * wo name s for Jupiter, but both pure Sanskrit. 



Mr. Colebrooke, had previously pointed out the following words 

 which occur in Hindu astrological or arithmetical works, as being of 

 Greek origin, viz : ^rj (Hora ;) fX^rP&T (dreshkana) (StKavoq ;) 

 f%n?rTT (Lipta) (Xe7rra) a minute of a degree ; %^5 (Kendra) 

 \KEvTpov.) He also instances, (" on a hasty glance over the Indian 

 treatises on horoscopes,") anapha, sunapha, durudhara, and kemadruma, 

 words " designating certain configurations of the planets," as " not 

 Sanskrit, but apparently barbarian," the affinity of which to terms in 

 other languages had not been traced. (Essays, vol. 2, p. 529.) The 

 words anapha, and sunapha, Mr. Lassen derives, with evident pro- 

 bability, from the Greek avatprj, and ovvatyrj. And it should be 

 observed that, though rejecting the testimony of the Hora Sastra, he 

 holds that the use of Greek terms by the Hindu astrologers dates as 

 far back, as Varaha Mihira. The Hora Sastra is, however, as has been 

 shown above, identical with the Vrihat Jataka. 



I add a list of other foreign terms, pointed out to me by the Sastri, 

 as occurring in the Vrihat Jataka ; which denote, he informs me, the 

 different compartments of a Kundali, or square astrological figure for 

 casting nativities. They are as follows; f^jTJJ (rihpha), ^"f^^j 

 (dushchiktha), mf (dyuna), qiljlh ^ Panaphara), ^pfxrrfWf apoklima 

 qu . airoKXi/ma, f%^cfi (hibuka), ^nf%^ (jamitra), ilWIJ (mes- 

 hurana) qu. /utaovpaviov ? 3"f^ (veshi.) 



Azimghur, 

 Nov. IZth, 1845. 



