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gnomon and clcpfydre,*- were too rudely executed, whatever may be 

 thought of their design, to enable the aftronomers to make very deli^ 

 care ©bfervations; and they were not affifted, as in- the preceffion of 

 the equinoxes, by the memory of a former pofition recorded in thcin 

 ancient writings,. 



NOTE REFERRED TO FROM PAGE 2.28V. 

 According to - A'ryabhaVt'a as quoted by Braheecupta and . hi^ fcholiafi 



'£'& IT'hu'dACA SWa'mi', 



One Tuga contains. Years 1,080,000 



One Maha-yuga ~ 4. Tugas 4,320,000 



One Menu-yuga zzi 7-2 Mahdyugas -. 311^040,000. 



One Calpa ■=. l^Menus,^ 1008 Mahdyugas 4,354,560,000' 



■§£f- The Calpa began on Thurfflay aft Gwitra smla t at the. 

 moment of fun-rife at Lantd, 



Years expired from the commencement cf-the Calpa, . to the- : 

 war of the Bbdrataox. beginning of the Call age.* - - 2,986, 120,000' 



Add expired years of the Cali to the S'aca era,, » - 3» 1 79 



Years from - the beginning, of the- Calpa to. the commence- 

 ment of the S'aca era,, - * .- i»98S,i23 s t79 



Years expired from the commencement -of the prefect Mabd-yuga, 

 to- the beginning of -the Call- age t when- there was. a .conjunction,.-. 3^240^000 



Revolutions of the earth round its. own axis. In a quadruple 



, or Maha-yuga, <= 1*582,237,500 



Hence, deducing revolutions of the fun* =>- - . 4,320,000 



Remain, Nycthemera, or Sdvana days* in a Mabd-yuga s -■■ r »577>9 1 7>5 00 



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