214 HINDU ASTRONOMERS. 



principle, the quantity of the preceffion in his own time at 



rev. so i II III IIII V VI 



Cj 1,189 ° lu 54 35 2 3 55 4° 4^* ne thence, for the fake of facility 

 in calculation, affuraes in his practical treatife, named Caraiia Cutuhala, 

 the afctual preceffion in whole numbers at eleven degrees, and allows 

 the annual motion to be taken at one minute.* The time, for which 

 this computation was made, is the fame with the epocha of the Ca- 

 rana. Cutuhala, ;f which is the year 1105 Saea% thirty-three years after 

 the Siroviiaiii was completed Jj 



Bhascara's authority, fupporting that of Munjala, and counte- 

 nanced by Vishnu Chandra's,^ has not availed with Indian aftro- 

 Bomers. Even his commentator Mun'iS'wara, rejects the notion of 

 a complete revolution ; and, in his own treatife entitled Stdd'hanta Sdr~ 

 vabhauma, a Herts the doclrine of libration, and attempts to refute the 

 other opinion, not indeed by argument, but in deference to the- S&rya- 

 fidd*hdnta and other authorities to which it is oppofed. 'Upon the fame 

 ground, Camalacara in the Sidd'hdnta tatwavive'ca fays, " Tb.« 

 se degrees of the colures, as ftated by Munjala, and taught in the 



* Muniswara, in his commentary on trie Siromanu 



+ The Grahalugh'tva, jv^tten in 1442 Saca, deducts ^,444 fomVrie expire^ years of the S'aca, and di= 

 vide* by 60; reckoning the precefii .11 at a minute a yea-. This agrees nearly wish the Caranp Cutuhala*. 

 for, if the fene number (444) b; de. lulled from the years expired, ~'(-i ioj^Jca ;) the remainder gives bu« 

 ©ne minute above 1 1 °, the quantity there alTum-d by Bha'scara. 



R&machandra, who in the 'Cala/iirtwja ftaies the quantity of preceffion as amounting to.12 , and rec- 

 kons the preceffion at a minute of a. degree, a year, feerm a'T> ,1.0 have foilovj-e.l the fame authority. He 

 may therefore have written about fixty years fubfequent to the due of the Carana Cutuhala ; or Saca 1 i6c„ 

 'J his afcertainment of ihe age of Ra'machandra acha'rya is a ilep IdwirBi "inveftigarip> the age of wri- 

 ters in other branches of faience* who have quoted this author or who are -cited '.by him. They are nu- 

 merous/ 

 •J Faizi; in his tranflition of Bhiifcara's LHa-vatf. 



|| For it was finifhed when the author was thirty-fix years of age ; and he was born in rojS S'aas : as 

 ,iht informs us. 

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