2jo ON THE EQUINOXES. 



The computation of the yuga and calpa, according to thefe authorities, is well 



known j and need not be exhibited in this place. They make it begin on Sunday; 



{he -one at midnight, the other at fun rife, on the meridian of Lane a ; and the 



■ elapfed years to the beginning of the Call age are 1,972,944,000. (To which 



Brahmegupta adds 3,179 years to the S'aca era.) The Surya-Jidd'hdnta deduces 



-: 3-7,064,000 years; making the epoch of a fuppofed conjunction of planets by fo 



many years later than the, beginning of the Calf a 



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_ : REVOLUTIONS of the PLANETS. - 



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According to Pulis' a According to the According to 



quoted by Bh'att'otpala, Surya-ftdd'kanta,. Brahmegufta. 



In a Maha-yuga* In a Makd juga. In a Calpa. 



Sun, ■ - - 4,320,000 4,320,000 4,320,000,000 



Moon (Periodical,) 57,753^33^ 57,7S3>33 6 57 1 753»3 oo » O0 ° 



Mars, « - 2,296,824 2,296,832 ■ 2,296,828,522 



Mercury, - *7>937> 000 ^937> o6 ° *7>93 6 >99 8 >9 8 4 



Jupiter, - 364,220 364,220 364,2,26,455 



"Venus, « ■ ■ - 7,022,388 ■■■ 7,022,376 , 7,022,389,491 



, . 146,564 146568 - m6,5 6 7»?9 8 



.©ays/ i 1,577,917.800 i,577,9»7.8«8- i,577>9* 6 >45°. 000 



§£f- A'ryabhat't'a ftat.es the revolutions, of Jupiter at 364.224. And Va- 

 SA'HAMiHiitA's rule for the cycle of 60 years of Jupiter is founded on that 

 number. The period*- a-Slgned- by, tbefe. two authors to other planets have not 

 ieen afcertained ; except Saturn's aphelion, reckoned by A ryab'hat't'a at 54 -revo- 

 lutions in a calpa. A'ryab'hatVa's numbers are faid to have been derived from 

 i\\q Pat. ajar a fid d'han! a c, (As,. Res. voj. 2, .p. 2.42,) 



