MO flINDU 1STEONOMEUS 



In his notes on this pari of his tert» fee cites, ias>befar£c-obferved, the 

 precife pafTageof Brahmzgvpta which faarbeeirinierie.d above, -and 

 a portion of Chatojsv Ida's xoiatoept ©© k, apd-pame$ the author, 



in another inftanee Bhascaia quotes In Ms ^irdmaS iSKAHMieB*.a 

 ta by name, and the commentator by Implication, (and fuller, quotations 

 ofboth occur m the notes and commentaries,) . for adifagreementio re- 

 gard to the latitude of ftars and -plaiseli menfored from the ecliptick 

 both on a circle drawn through its poles, aod ®m ^one palling through 

 t&e poles of .the ecliplick* .-the flatter- termed -Sphut'a or apparent and 

 the other Ajphuia, or unapparent* Bhascajm remarks, >that Brahms- 

 (Supta has directed the latitudes of planets to be computed'. by one 

 mode, and has given thofe of the ftars in the other, but. has ftated no 

 rule for reducing the latitude of one denomination to the other, or for 

 rectifying the truel>t'itude froEs -Che meafure .given on , the circle of 

 declination^ ' The reafon'he confidd* to"be the little difference between 

 them; (which is true; m refpeft ©f • the planets^ though not fo in the 

 .cafe of moil of the ilars;) and the frequeol oeeaflon In agronomical 

 computations, for the .declination of (U», while their proper latitude 

 is not an element in any calculation jj whereas, in the cafe of the planets, 

 both are employed @ra different ©eeafions i he adverts to a trained inter- 

 pretation propofeo 1 by the commeotator I© conftrue Brahmegupt/s 

 rule as adapted to the fame denomination of latitude which; is employed 

 by him for the ftars. Bhascara rcfites that interpretation, and juf. 

 tines Brahmsc-opta's text taken in its obvious and natural fcnfe. 



■ j§/j>hufa Sara is tfee trae latitade of a Ms of plane?! Sf&ui'a Sam is lit destination i; declinitioo of 

 : $ie point of interfe&ion jo she ecliptick. 



