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ing of diftincl: examination for the Information which it contains, th€ 

 difficulties which it prefents, and the variety of topicks which it fug* 

 gefts. 1 fhall here quote the original and add a verbal tranflation. 





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et The interfeclion of the ecliptic and equinoclial ■ circles is iheCran- 

 €s iipdia or interfering point of the fun's path. Its revolutions, as 

 €S declared on the authority of Surya (SauroEiak), are retrograde three 

 u myriads in a Calpa. ^This is the -fame with the motion of the folftice^ 

 " as affirmed by Monjala, and others. But, according to their 

 u doctrine, its revolutions are 199,669 in a Culpa." 



This is the very paffage, to which the .commentator on the Surya- 

 Jidd'hania, cited by Mr. Davis,* alludes, where he fays " the mean- 

 64 ing of BhAscara acharya, was not that Surya, [in the Surya. 

 ^ Jidd'hdnta,'] gave 30,000 as the revolutions of the places of the colures, 

 u in a Calpz ; the name he ufed being Saura not Surya t and applied 

 "to fome other book/' 



• It is certainly true, as here obferved by this commentator, that 

 Bhasc-ara's quotation does not agree with the text of the Surya Jidd'h- 

 dnta, which expreffes, " The circle of the afterifms moves eaflward 



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