sion observed by him. He wrote his work in Saka 854,* and the precessional rate assigned is 59"-9 in a year. We also learn from Dvivedi's Gayaka-turangiờí that according to Muñjála, Saka 434 was without ayanáinsa. Now, from 434 to 854 Saka, there were 420 years, during which at the rate of 59":9 per year, the ayanámsa had amounted to 6° 59' 18". However erroneous the rate given by Muñjála may be, it will not be wrong if we take 6° 59' 18" (say 7°), as the ayanámsa in Saka 854. We know, however, that the rate of precession could not have been greater than 58":68 per year. Accordingly, the ayanánsa obtained above carries us back through 429 years from Saka 854, the date of Muñjála's work. In other words, we find that according to Muñjala's data Saka 425 was the year of no ayanámsa at the latest. From the ayanáins a obtained from Muijála and that observed in Saka 1816, we noto that the rate of precession amounts to 56":8 in a year. The next work we take is Bhásvati by Satánanda, which is still regarded as an authority for the calculation of eclipsey. He wrote his work in S'aka 1021, and according to him the rate of precession is 60" per year. We also know that be regarded the Saka year 450 as the year without ayanáins a. Now, cal- culating the amount of a yanáns a in Saka 1021 in the above manner, we find that it was 9º 31' in that year. From this, cal- culating backwards at 58.68 a year, we come to S'aka 437 as
- The date 384 given in the Gunaka-tarangiai seems to be a mispriat,
though it occurs throughout the short notice of Muājála, excepting in the passage where Pandit Dvivedi quotes marquía from Muñjála, making the date 854 Saba, adopt od above, Digitized by Google
