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exactly accord in fen fie and import. They ■ occafionally quote ob- 

 fervations on Brahmegupta by his fcholiaft Chaturveda Prithu- 

 daca Swamu A book is extant (a copy, partly deficient howevery 

 having come into -my poffeffion with other aftronomical collections;) 

 and which oonfifb of a text under' the- title : : of Brahme-fphut'a-ftdS'hdnta 

 accompanied -by "-a continual commentary -by Chaturveda I*Ri* 

 thudaca SwamL '< The text contains the fame aftronomical dotlrlne 

 which Bhasgara teaches, and which he profeffes to have derived 

 from Brahmegup/a; and paffages quoted by him in his text, or at 

 more length in his notes, or by hrs commentators, or by other afiro- 

 nomical writers, as the -words of Brahmegupta, are : found verbatim 

 in it I con fide r it therefore as the genuine text of the treatife .ufed 

 by Bha'sgara, as Brahmegupta's ; and feeing no reafon for fufpi- 

 cion and diftruft, I quote it as the authentick work of that celebrated 

 alironomer, 



. As the evidence which has been here "coTlecled with reference to par- 

 ticular points, bears alfo upon other quefiions, I fhall now ftatc further 

 conclufions, regarding the hiftory of Indian agronomy, which appear 

 io me to be juftly deducible from the premifes, Thofe conclufions 

 will be fupported, when necelfary, by additional references to autho. 

 rities. •> > 



Brahmegupta and Va'r a'hamihira, though named at the head of 

 aftronomers by Bha'sgara and Sata^n^nd* and by the herd of later 

 writers, arc not to be considered as the authors of the Indian fyftem 

 of aftronomy,; They abound in quotations from more ancient aftrono- 

 mers, upon whOfe works their own are confcfledly grounded. In ad- 

 dition to the names beforcmen'ioned,* thofe of Pradyi t mna,Lala 



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