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a synodieal revolution. The names of these con- 

 stellations have by degrees been given to the 

 lunar days themselves, and this apparent con- 

 nexion between the sign and the day is become 

 the principal basis of the chimerical calculation 

 of astrology. 



On an attentive examination of the names, 

 which the naashatras, or lunar houses, bear in 

 Hindostan, we recognise in them not only all 

 the names of the Tartar and Thibetan zodiac, 

 but also those of several constellations, which are 

 identic with the signs of the Greek zodiac. 

 Each nacshatra has 13° 20', and 2 nacshatras 

 correspond to one of our signs. The following 

 table shows the great probability, that the solar 

 zodiac took its origin from the lunar zodiac ; 

 and that the twelve signs of the former were 

 chosen in a great measure among the 27 nac- 

 shatras. 



