52 Sty-Suddhfdta the different apparent values of the greatest heliocentric latitude, but this rocan is of course less, and for Mercury very much less, then the inclination. Ptolemy, in the elaborate discussion of the theoz of the latitude contained in the thirteenth book of bis Syntaxis, has deduced he actual inclination of the orbits of the two inferior planets: bhbis the Hindus do not seem to have attempted. We pregend below a conmparative table of the inclinations of the orbits of the planets as determined by Ptolemy and by moderm astronomers, with those of the Hindu8, so far as given directly by the stry७-Siddhants Eclinato o €he Orbity of Ale Plabets, according to Differeी ¢thorities. Daget shya-SiddhAnta. 'tolemy. Moderne. 80 1 B0 Mercury Yents, MgtB upiter, 85turn Moon B0 30
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51 1 1840 2 29 28 40 2 B8 The vorb in verses 68 and 606, which we have translated ( caused to arate is i 't, literally * is harled away ai«jician; from it is derived the term used in this treatise to signify selestial latitute, ४%8ape.
- disjection. ” The Hindus measure the latitude, however, as we shal
have occasion to notice more particularly horeatter, upon a circle of declina tion, and not upon a secondary to the eclipti . In the words chosen to designate it is been the influence of the theory of the node's action, as stated in the first verses of flhe next rhapty. The forpilbertTrm renoval is from the point of declination (krit , gait, ot upakram । faithrAl .e., from the celestial equater) which the planet ought at the time to accupy The title given to %his first chaplet (adhiki , ' subject, helding ’} is madhyenadahlady, which we have represented in the title by nicon motions of the planets, although it would be more accurately sendered by rleap places of the planets; that is to say, the data and methods £equisite for ascertaining their agent places. Now follows the ap५४%t¢ adhikara, ‘‘ chapter of the true, or correctpd, places of the plete,