ON THE EQUINOXES, 213' 



clearly demonstrate, that a libration of the equinoxes, at the rate oF 

 §x hundred in a yuga 9 was there meant. For, in all the paffages 

 auoted, the revolution, as it is termed, of the equinoctial points, 

 confifls in a libration of them within the limits of twenty-feven de- 

 grees earl, and as many weft, of the beginnings of Aries and Libras 

 and that fuch is the meaning conveyed in the text of the Suryafidd , kdnta 3 - 

 bdiflinclly mown by the commentator cited by Mr. Davis, *as 

 well as by, the other commentators- -on that work* 



The fame doclrine is taught in the Paraiara-fidd'hdnta, as quoted ' 

 by Muniswara; and, if we may rely on the authority of a quotation- ■■ 

 by this author from the works- of AryabhatVa, it was alfo main- 

 tained by- that ancient aftronomer: but, according to the fir ft men- 

 tioned treatife, the number of librations amounts to 581,709, and, 

 according to the latter, 578,159 in a Calpa, inftead of 600,000: and 

 A'ryabh at t"a .has Mated the limits of -the- libration at 24° inilead . of } 



2ft.' 



Bhascara himfelf, adopting the -doctrine for -which he quotes the 

 authority of Munjala, in the paffage above cited, mentions a com- 

 plete revolution of the places of the colures through the twelve figns 



11 in mi v vi 



of the Zodiack at the rate of 59 54 2 31 12 per annum, or 199,669 

 complete revolutions in a Calpa. Having computed upon the fame 



* As Res. 2. p. 267. The commentator is hhljinhd. 



A'ry aehat't'a, in the Aryajhtas'ata ( quoted by Mutuj'WA'RA, ■ -Ifis * fpecially neceffuy to diftin» 

 guifli the particular work of this author to which reference is made: for B&ahmkcupt/v reproaches him 

 for his inconfiftency in affirming revolutions of the nodes in the A'rya/Iitat'aia, which he denied in the 

 Daragiiaca. It is therefore probable, that the libration of the equinoxes (confidercd as node*) toi whidfc-*- 

 She fird mentioned work is quoted, may not be dated in the other. 



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