of Dection, Place, and res {1} taught 1 (h• £xt l! {K]|1lg 1ace upon / folded citcle, 80 && #o be mud८ hbrotory, he petent position of the novable point, f Eiscu], ough, to be to the west ethe equinox, instead of to the east, as it actuely is, u& was pxobably on tcc 1% of his unfortunate faw in the process, thut no rule 1t Regard to the rection was given, excerting the experi nontal one contained in verses 11 and 12, which, noreover, is not properly Supplementary to tho preverlah rulos, but rather an independent methood of detening, from observation, both the direction and the amount of the precession In verse 12, 10 may be remonked, in the word anyt४८, +unnung back. found the only distinctuntimation to be discovered in the pa58age of the clian ace of the notion a8 1bratory. We have already above (under J. 2s) hanted our BuspicionE that the nhemorymenon of Bhe precussion was made no account of in the priginal composition of {}he Sansthan and bat the botics taken of it by th; treatise a५ ४ ७ ८ ९ ent ॥५ n nfig¢blhought: we will now proceed to (pose the grounds of th०५e quptions } + 1 bn the #i{ ]ng |pon coorl (see Colebrooke, As, Ras. , X[3. 216, F}ssays, i 880, etc) that some of the earliest Hindu astbonomes were gno!ant of, ox goved, the perwdeal motion of the equinoxes; Brahmg ४up a hums&it a mentioned along those whose systems took no account at it; 1t is, then , not at all 10710951ble that the Surya-Siddhjnta, if a ancient work, may bgnally have done the sanne. Among the positiv> evhanges to that effect, we would fi>and even in the second shapte, in connection with the rule fox finding the declination, it would have been batter introduced that it is here. Again, in the twelfth whatker, where the debits of he heavenly bodies are given, in tarna
