jjt2 On the Indian Cycle 



Vrihafpetermanari madhyamarafibhogenofferr. : 



st It is his (Vrlhaf patios) mean motion (madhyama) through one fign. s> * 



To explain what is meant by the madhyama, in cor. trad iftinclion to the 

 fighra, motion of "Jupiter, and the other planets, and to (how that, by 

 compounding them in excentrick circles and epicycles, the Hindus compute 

 the apparent places of the planets on the principles of the Ptolemaic k auto- 

 nomy, is not the object of this piper : I fhall, therefore, only deiire it may 

 be underftood, that the madhyama of Jupiter anfwers to his mean motion 

 in his orbit, and the amount of it computed for any particular interval, to 

 his mean heliocentrick longitude in the Hindu ecliptick. The rule then for 

 computing his mana^ or year, of which the cycle of fixt'y years is formed,, 

 is evident j and, k is thus given in the ^^xhjloca of the firft ieCtion of the 

 Surya Siddhdnta* 



sftrfeicw sfti sphj #$ b&k i 



Dwadafaghna guro yata bhagana verfamanacaih 

 Rifibhih fahitah fiiddhah maihtya fyurvijayadayaH 



" Multiply by \% J upiters' expired bhaganas, (revolutions) and (to the 

 ** product) add the fign he is in; divide (the fum) by 60 j the remainder or 



* Correct an error in Vol. II. p. 233 in the note on the Hindu, cycle of fixty : for degree i&iL&jtgn,, 



