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of the Hindoos, and its Divisions. 
Benares, and the time between sun-rise, at the latter place, and 
noon ; which shews also that the time in these columns is 
reckoned from sun-rise, as might naturally be expected. 
In regard to the moon's place in the nakshatras and move- 
able zodiac, it appears, by examining the fifth and eighth co- 
lumns, that in each of them are 27 characters, which return 
constantly in order, except when the regularity is broken, ei- 
ther by the moon quitting two spaces in the same day, or by 
not quitting any one space in the day. The numbers also, 
both in the sixth and seventh, and in the ninth and tenth 
columns, increase when the moon is near the apogee, and di- 
minish when she is near the perigee, which shews that they 
must be the time at which the moon finishes some 27th part 
of a revolution of one kind or other ; and by examining the al- 
teration of the numbers during twelve revolutions of the moon 
in anomaly, it appears first, that the moon describes 326 of 
the spaces given in the fifth column, in 329* 57 dan> 38 p 3U which 
is the time in which the moon moves over that number of 
nakshatras ; and secondly, that the moon describes 350 of the 
spaces given in the eighth column in 32^ 36 dan - 48 p 31, which is 
the time in which the sum of the mean motions of the moon 
and sun are equal to 350 27ths of a circle ; or in other 
words, is the time in which the moon’s motion in the move- 
able zodiac is 350 of these 27th parts ; and moreover, I can- 
not find any other 27th of a revolution of the moon which 
will agree with this time ; which is a sufficient proof that 
the numbers in the ninth and tenth columns are the times at 
which the moon quits one of these 27th parts in the move- 
able zodiac. But a thing which more strongly proves the 
truth of this, and which also shews that the first point of this 
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