ON THE EQUINOXES. Ml 



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I will refute the errors (refpe£ting the yugas and other matters) 

 of thofe who milled by ignorance maintain things contrary to the 

 Brahma jiddlidn ta" 



.What the work is, to which Br ahmegupta refers under the title fpe- 

 cified by him, and correfponding to a fubfequent mention by him of the 

 Paitdmaha-fidd'hdnta (both titles being of the fame import) is explained 

 by the fcholiafls of Bhasc ar a and of the Sihya-fidahdnta* Nrisinh a, 

 a commentator on both texts,* affirms that Brahmegupta's rules are 

 formed from the VijliJLud'kermot tar a -pundfia in which the Brahme-fidihdnia 

 is .contained ;t Bhascara's commentator, MuniswaraJ remarks, that 

 Brahmegupta, having verified by obfervation the revolutions flated 

 in the Brahma-fidd'hanfd of the Vijlinu-d'harmottarag and having found 

 them fukable to his own time, adopted thefe numbers, rejecting the 

 revolutions taught by Sjrya and the red. In other places the com- 

 mentator cites parallel paffages from Brahmegupta and the Brahma 

 (alfo termed by him Paitdmaha) fidd'hdnta, of the ViJ]inii,^h.crmnttara;^% 



* He is auihor of a commentary on the Si'erya-Jidd'hdntd^ and of the Vqfand Vartica on Bh/sCARA s * 

 tex^t and n t< s. 'It is dated in 1543 Sac.a, or 11621 A, D. 



t As, Ret. vl. 2. p. 242. 



% Author of the Mdrichi oh Bha'scara's S iromani, and of a diftinfl ireMife of aflfonomf, the Sirfd'hdxlA 

 larvabkauma* TheeaiJiell copy of the Mdrichi is dated 1 j6o S aca (A. D. I 638}, which is not much biter 

 than th dae of the woik itfelf ; for the Emperor Nu ruddi n Jfh angir is menti >ned at th- clofe of the 

 ho k, » 6 he alfo is in the preface of a commentary on the S&rja-Jzdd'hdnia by the author's father Ran« 

 .CAnaVh a. 



I 'lake the following as examples : 



lit. The number of Sideteal days in a Ca!pa s (viz. 1 5822364^0000) which the Vaitdmala-fidl'hdnia", 

 of the Vi/b'nud'hern:6ttara cned in Maricbi ch. i.) expreffes by thefe words.-— s^ft^nfaq^^T^Ti^'HH^ 

 E^fts^i: fi^^fri ^3p.!^T: (I 

 and Erahmegupta renders by the equivalent terms, ^f^r^^^^f^^^ 1 '' 37 '^^!^^ 11 



?d. 'Ihe commencement of he Calpa, on Sunday, jft Cbaitra, at the mome t of funrife on the men- 

 Alijin of banc? which the Brdbma-Jidd'banta of the Vifinu d'bertnotiara.fHaiui (Marichi; Ch. a.Uhus ex« 



