drant of a circle is divided into twenty-four equal parts and these parts are known as kaştha, dhanu, dhanuḥkha- nda, dhanurbhaga, etc. Dhanurbhāga (धनुर्भाग) 225'. Dhanus (धनुष्) (1) Arc. ( 2 ) 225. Dhanvin () The sign Sagittarius. Dharanidina (धरणीदिन) Civil day. Dharādivasa day. Dharasuta (a) Mars. $ (धरादिवस ) GLOSSARY Civil Dhatridhara () Seven. Dhrti (fa) Eighteen. Dhruvaka (T) A technical term. See MBh, i. 29. Nakṣatra (T)(1)Star. (2)Aster- ism. (3) Twenty-seven. Nakṣatragana (¹) Sam as Bhagana. Nakha () Twenty. Naga () Seven. Nakṣatra-bheda () Occul- tation of stars. Natabhaga () The degrees (bhaga) of zenith distance (nata). Natāmsa (at) Zenith distance. Nati (नति) (1) The meridian zenith distance. (2) Celestial latitude as corrected for parallax in latitude. (3) Parallax in latitude. Natijya (f) The Rsine of the meridian zenith dista- nce. 243 Nanda () Nine. Nabha () Zero. Nara () (1) The sign Gemini. (2) Gnomon. (3) The Rsine of altitude. Na (n) The Rsine of altitude. Nadika (fs) A unit of time equivalent to 24 minutes. Nadi (ast) See Nadika. Nirakṣa (f) Equator. Nirakṣāsu (fr) Asus of the right ascension, i.e., the time in asus of rising at the the equator. Nirapavartita (af) Una- braded, unabridged. Nisakara (F) (1) Moon. (2) One. Niscalakriya (निश्चलक्रिया) Method of successive approxima- tions. Nihśvāsalava (निःश्वासलव) Asus. Nr. (7) Gnomon.
