210 On the Indian Cycle 



Brahman daivaii tat'ha pstryan prajapatyari guroftat'ha, 

 Saurari che favanan chandram arcfhan manani vai navar 

 Chaturbhir vyavaharo'tra faurachandrarcfha favanaih, 

 Varhafpatyena fhaftVtyabdari jrie'yan nanyaiftu nityasah : 



and the tranflation of them is as fellows: " The Brahma, the. Dawa, tries 

 '* Pitrya, the Prdjapatya, that of Guru, the S 'aura, the Sdvana, the Chan-- 

 ** dra % the Ndc/hatra, are the nine d inunctions of time. Four of thofe.- 

 " diftindions are of practical ufe to mortals; namely, the Saura\ the Chan- 

 " dra, the NdcJJiatra, the Sdvana. That of Vnhfbcti (Guru) is formed' 

 " into fixty years. The other distinctions occur but fddom in agronomical I 

 * practice.'* 



Brahma's^ is that, whereof the Calpa is one day. The Daiva year 

 confifts of 360 revolutions of the fun through the: ecliptick. The Pitrya 

 day is from lunation to lunation. The Prajdpati-mdna is the man t w,antara a - 

 The cycle of Guru or Vrihifpati, which is the fubjfct;of this paper, will be 

 explained further on. The Chandra is lunar, and the Ndcfhatra, fidereaU 

 time. The Saura and Sdvan, are the fame folar-fidereal year differently 

 divided ; the fun's pailage through each degree of the ecliptick being ac- 

 counted as a day of the flrft, and the time contained between fun-rife and \ 

 fun-rife as a day of the laft 3 confecjuently, there are 360 days, or divinons, 



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the Hindoos. This is a cycle or revolving period of fixty filar years 3 which has no further ccrrefpondence 

 with the xras above mentioned [of Bikramaju and Salaban\ than that of their years refpe&ivtly commen- 

 cing on the fame daj," &G» 



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