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cs thirty fcores In a _)>«£#. Multiplying the number of elapfed days by 

 * ( that, and dividing by the tcrreftrial days, [which compofe the 

 « s cycle], the quantity obtained is an arc, which, multiplied by three, 

 tS and divided by ten,® gives degrees (am'aj termed ayana s [or the 

 *' place of the colure.]" 



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Here the number of revolutions is 600 in a yuga, anfwering to 

 f €oo,ooo -in a Culpa; and not as -ftated by Bhascara, 30,000. But 

 the commentator's mode of reconciling the contraction by fuppofing 

 a different book from the Surya fidd'kdnta, to have been intended, is 

 incompatible with Bhascara's own explanation of his text, in the 

 VdfandbhdJJiya, containing annotations by himfelf on his owntreatife. 

 He there fays in exprefs words, " the revolutions of the interfering 

 " point of the fun's path are ftated in the Suryajidd'hdnta, as amounting 

 * £ to 30,000 in a Culpa "f 



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His commentator, Monis'wara, has therefore ■ recou'rfe to 

 other expedients for reconciling the contradiction between Bhas- 



* Ra ioof 27 to 90°. 



+ Bhascara's Vafnna. Hhjjrjyn on tlie aftronomy and fphcrlcks of his Sidd'hdnta sWomani. Tins vo- 

 lume of annotations is commented, with the Siromani, by Nrisinha in the Vafand Vdrt^ca, as proceed- 

 ing from the fame writer ; and is exprefsly acknowledged to be a work of the author of die text (as it 

 aftualy purparts) by the Scholiast Muniswara, in this very place, where he is endeavouring to fupport 

 his own interpretation of the text, againft the apparent and natural fenfc of a paff.<ge in the author's notes. 



