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* x are thus ftated. In the cycle of fixty are contained five cycles of twelve;, 



|* which five cycles, or yugas, are named 



'■ c Samvatfara, over which pre fides - - ~ Agnn. 



": Parhatfara, - - - - " =- , - Area., 



" Idavaifara:, - - - - - - Chandra.. 



&i Anuvatfara, - - - - - . * . Brahman 



44 Udmvaifara, » - • .- - - - «* &&& 



8£ Text? e4 The firft year of the cycle of fixty ? named Prahhava, be— 

 88 gins, when in the month of Mdgha., Vrihafpaii rifes in the firft degree 

 "of the Nacjliatra DhaniJJjfha; and the quality of that year is always good.' * 



Commentary y " The month-of Mdgh here meant rs the lunar Mdgh :: 

 u it cannot be the folar Mdgh y becaiifc when Vrihafpaii rifes in 9? 23° acr* 



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muft be in 10? 6° h. 



The years of the cycle and- the presiding D-eiiies are thus arranged by 

 YaraTiiamihira in fix memorial couplets. 

 Bra'hmAo. . .-Vaish-nav-Ao. 



Prabhava, Sarvajit, 



Vibhava* Sarvadhari, . 



Sucla s Yirodhi,. 



Pramoda s Vicritav 



5. Prajapati, 25. G'*hara,. 



Saiva.. 

 Plavanga-,, 

 Cilaea,.. 

 Saumya, 

 Sadharana a .. 

 45. Virodhacrit, 



* B'ecauie the beginning of Bhanijbt'-'' x ha\% weft" of the --end of Magh only 6° 40', at which' diftance from- 

 {he fun, Jupiter would not rife heliaeally, or be ften difengaged, from his rays-; but, the lunar Magh might 

 extend to near the end of the folar Phalgitn. Should the moon, however, change very foon. after the fun's 

 entrancc.of the Hindu fign Capricorn, coincident with Magh; then, neither the f'larnor the- lunar month: 

 of that same would agree wnh,the.tetras i .of,ihe.propcfittaiu; which k-an inftance of an imperfect aftroncmy,. 



