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as the fpeaker in a dialogue with B'hrTgu; or it is acknowledged 



to be the work offome unknown perfon.* The true author it may 



be now irnpra&icable to difcovcr and would be vain to conjecture. 



The Sfcrya-ftdd'hanta if the fame which we now poffefs) is in like 

 manner afcribed to no certain author, unlefs in the paffage cited by our 

 colleague Mr. Bentley,! who (ays, that " in the commentary on 

 the Bhdfzoati, it is declared, that Va r aha was the author of the Surya- 

 fiddlidnta" and who adds, that "Satananda, the author of the 

 Bkafwati, was a pupil of Var ah a under whole direeiions he himielf 

 acknowledges he wrote that work.'* 



The concluding remark alludes to the following verfe of the Bkafi 



"Wati-carana. 



"Next 1 will oropound fuccin&ly, from Mihira's inftrudtion*,. 

 •' [?his fyftem] equal to the Surya-fidcPhdnta? 



It is preceded by an introductory couplet, which will be found 

 quoted at the foot of the page, J oris omitted in lome copies: but 

 the correct reading, as appears from collation of text and fcholia, re- 

 tains both. 



, * Da'd/Sha'j, in his commentary on the &k>ya-fid£'hat>ta, fays fo. 

 f A$. Res. vol. 6. p. 571. 



«» Having bwed to the foot of the foe of Mur a, the fortunate Satananda propourds, for the benefit 

 ©ffiudei t e j the Bhaftuai'y in the Hitca year 102 1." 



The author SatanandAj as he hrmfclf InfoMS m in she clofc of the book, was an inhabi.-amof/V^aK 



