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



rev. so 1 II III IIII V VI 



91,189 o 10 54 35 23 55 40 48, he thence, for the fake of facility 

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

 the a£tual preceffion in whole numbers at eleven degrees, arid 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 trie Ca«* 

 rail a. Cutuhala ;+ which is the year 1105 Saca" s % thirty-three years after 

 the Sironiafii was completed '[J 



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

 nanced by Vishnu Chandra's^ has not availed with Indian air.ro- 

 .nomers. Even his commentator Muniswara, rej-cis the notion of 

 a complete revolution ; and, in his own treatife entitled Szdd'hdnta Sdr~ 

 vabhauma, afferts the doclrine of libration, and attempts to refute the 

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

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

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

 st degrees of the colures, as ftated by Mejnjala, and taught in the 



* Muniswara, in liis commentary on the SirSmahu 



+ The Grakalag'h'iva, vy'r^tten in 1442 Saca, deda% -,444 fom'Ae expired years of the S'aca, and di= 

 vkles by 60; reckoning the preceffion at a minute a yea--. This agrees nearly with the Coronet Cutuhala; 

 for, ifthefiime number (444) bi de.|u3ed from the years expired, 3:-{4 iofWca 1 /) the remainder gives but 

 tine minute above 1 1°, the quantity there arTum'.d by Bha'scara. 



R*machandra, who in the 'Calanin'iaya ftaies the quantity of preceffion as amounting to .iz.°, and rec- 

 kons the preceffion at a minute of a degree, a year, feerns a'f > to have .followed the fame authority. He 

 may therefore have written about fixty years fubfequent to trie d ite of the Cara/ia Cutuhala ; or Saca i i6c„ 

 This afcertainment of ihe age of Ramachandra a'charya is a itep towards 'inveftigatin<* the s<ve of wri- 

 ters' in other branches of fc4ence, who have quoted this author er who are cited by him. They are nu= 

 meious. 

 0$ Faizi ; in his tranflatian of Bhafcara's Llfdi'atl. 



|| For it was finifhed when the author was thirty-fix years of age j and he was born in To 3 5 'S'aca : se 



lie informs as. 

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