58 Singh-Sadhakota (¢groce) of encb is the nican place of the sun Since they move but slowly, as compared with the sun, it is their conjunction which approaches , ०vertake, and passes them, and not they the conjunction. Their time of slowest motion is when in opposition with alht sun ; of swiftest, when in conjunction with hinn from opposition ow to conjunction, bacrofore, or hile the sun is approaching them frorm behind, they are, witl constantly increasing velocity of motion, a]] 1.hte while behind theig meon places, o¥ drawn away from them in the direction of whe sun ; but no soone has the sun ovectaken and passed then, than they, leaving with their most apia motion the point of coincidence ०४७en nican and true place, are at once in Bavanete, Ind continut *() we go until pposition is reached Agnin; bat is to say they are still drawn away from their nean place in the direction of the conjunction. The words used in Yese for tex•s$ and aeliev or for uruitive All uncii 'uation. :T) tr yeatlt (ha११) and debt {{c). 6. In like manner, also, the nolo, Rahu, by its proper fore, cause the deviation in Latitude (isher) of the moon and the other planets, northwara and southward, from their point of declination (apakra Wite) in the ha. -orbit behind the planet, the node causes iः to deviate nortlhar; 'hem in the aff-orbit in frontit dras it away southwara 8. In the case of Mercury an ennk, however, when the nodle is plus situated with regard to the conjunction (¢ighwe), these two planets aro caused to deviate in latitude . in the manner stated, by the attraction exercised by the noke upon the conjuncः tion. £he name Rhilm, by which the ascending node is hero designated, is properly mythological, and belongs to the monste in the heavens, which by the ancient Himans , as more than one other people, was believed to offension the (clipRes of the sun and moon by attetupting to devou¥ han. The word which we have translade krce 7rea8.rmore properly 'rapidity, violent motion : n employing it beethe text ev dently intends to Buggest an etymology for ytalk, A coming from the root h or .A. ६ +0 us Drn With this same root Webet (Ind. Stud. 272has connected whe group of words in which that seems to belong. Fom the Hindu fable respecting Radha ३. Wilson's Vishnu Purépa, p. 78. The moon's descending node was also personified in a similar way, unde: the name of Ketu, but to this no reference is made in the present treatise.
