or Sixty Yeah & 217 



certain particulars with a reference to the pofition of the colures as defcribed 

 foy Para'sara, and explained in the preceding volume of this work. 



Text : " OfVrihafpatfs 12 years. The name of the year is determined 

 * c from the Nacfhatra, in which Vrihafpari rifes and fets (heliacally) and 

 *' they follow in the order of the lunar months ." 



Commentary : ** But if, as it may happen, he mould fet in one and 

 ** rife in another Nacjhatra, which of the two, it may be afked, would 

 "" give name to his year? Suppofe him, for example, to fet in Rohini and 

 " to rife in Mrigajiras : — I -an Aver, that in fuch a cafe, the name mull be 

 44 made to agree with the order of the months ; or, it muft be that name, 

 ** which in the regular ferks follows the name of the year expired. Ac- 

 " cording to Sasiputra and others, the Nacfloatra in which Jupiter rifes 

 *' gives the name to his year. Casyapa fays, the names of the Samvatfara v 

 " Vuga, and the years of the cycle of Jixty, are determined from the Nac- 

 *' Jliatra in which he rifes ; and Garga gives the fame account. Some 

 M fay, that Cartk, the nrft year of the cycle of 12, begins on the firft day 

 " of the month of Cbaitr, whatever may be the Nacjhatra which Jupiter 

 " is then in \ and that Prabhava likewife, the firit year of the cycle of 

 *' fixty, begins in the fame manner ; and fome fay that Jupiter's years 

 f* are coincident with the folar years ; but that cannot be true, becaufe the 

 ** folar year exceeds in duration- the Vrihafpati year," &c. 



Text : €< The years beginning with Cdrtic commence with the Nacfha- 

 ** Ira Critic a, and to each year there appertain two Nacfhatras, except the 

 " 5th, nth, and 12th years, to each of which appertain three Nacfoatras" 



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