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explanation of the Jyotisha-Vedanga. 
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The 38th full moon takes place in 
The 47th new moon 
n 
11 11 
The 55th full moon, 
n 
11 11 
The 2nd new moon 
ii 
ii ii 
The 10th full moon „ 
ii ii 
The 19th new moon ,, 
ii ii 
The 27th full moon 
ii 
ii ii 
The 36th new moon 
i> 
ii ii 
The 44th full moon 
ii 
ii ii 
19 
124 
20 
124 
21 
124 
22 
124 
23 
124 
24 
124 
25 
124 
26 
124 
27 
124 
magha. 
svatL 
purvashadha. 
purvabhadr. 
krittika. 
pushya. 
hasta. 
jyeshtha. 
sravishtha. 
From comparing this list with the verse of the Jyotisha, the purport of 
the latter becomes manifest at once. The list begins with that nakshatra 
in the first one hundred and twenty-fourth part of which a parvan takes 
place, proceeds to that in the second of which the same takes place, 
and so on up to so that all nakshatras are comprised in the list. If 
we turn back to the complete list of all hundred and twenty-four parvans 
given above, we observe that all the numbers form regular jmogressions; it 
was therefore not difficult to lay down a simple rule, teaching at what 
place in a certain nakshatra parvans would take place after the place of the 
first parvan had been named. If such a rule is really hidden somewhere 
in the obscure verses of the Jyotisha, I am unable to say; possibly it might 
have been left to the ingeniousness of the student to find out the required 
law. Nor am I able to explain by what principle the author of the Jyo¬ 
tisha was guided in selecting the syllables which represent the names of the 
twenty-seven nakshatras. Doubtless he had his good reasons for taking 
sometimes a syllable of the nakshatra’s name, and sometimes a syllable of the 
name of the divinity presiding over the nakshatra, and again for taking either 
the first or the second or the third, etc., syllables of the names. Somakara’s 
explanation is corrupt and obscure, and seems besides not entitled to much 
regard since, as shown above, he is utterly wrong regarding the order in 
which the nakshatras are enumerated. I will only remark that after it had 
been ascertained in what part of a nakshatra the parvan takes place, the next 
important point would have been to find out at what time of the day the 
half month is finished, for thereon depends the fixing of the time for the 
