०/ Director, Plast,#888,
- hat in the original composition of the siddhanta a clease helanation,
and one more com$8tent n ts methao and language with iho&& at the tnsatise generally, would not have been found for the subject. we aven discover evidences of more than one revision of the passage he art half of verse 3 so distinctly *enches, f read Independently of what tolows fb, a complete revolution of the equinoxes, that, especially when baken un connection with Bhaskara's statement, as obed above, it almost amounts to proof that he theory put forth n the Surya Siddhanta was ab che tblume that of a gOpmplete revolution be same onotuaon !s not a ! strengthened, further by the Inposs!bility of deducing from verse 9, through the processes prescribed in she following ९ersesa bue expression for the direction of the movement at present we can see no reason why 1f Bh©whole passage came form bhe same hand, at the same timethus ahficulty should not have been avoided, while iहै 25 yeaduly explanable upon the supposition that the hbratory theory of vers9 10 was added as an amendment to the theory of verse , wheld at the same tume the language of bhe latter was left as nearly unaltered as possible There seens, according authenenb ground for suspectng that n the 5dzya Siddhanta, a९ orgunally constituted, no account us taken of the prese६SIOn that its recognit|on 18 a late1 Interpolation, and was made at first in the form of a theory of complete revolution being aftewad altered to its present shape whether the statement of Bhaskara truly represents the earlier theory , as displayed in the Sirya Siddhanta of hus time, we must leave an undetermined uestilon The very slow *ate ak५Igned by t to the movement of the equinox-only १y a yeak--bhrows a doubt upon the matter but it must be borne in mind that, so far as we can see, the actual amount of the precession see about A D 570 (see above, under 1 27) raught by that irst theory have been astributed over the whole duration of the present Age since B C 8102 In his own astronomy. Bhaskara teaches the complete revolution of the equnox86 VIn¢ }he number of revolution in an on (ot 4,820,000,000 years) ने 198 660, Ahus makes the thrme of a angle revolu. ion to be 21,635 8078 years, and the yearly *ate of preceason 59* 2007 46 13 not to be supposed that he considered humaelt to havo determined the state with such exactne85 ५५ would give precisely the odd number of 498,86€ revolutions to the on, the number doubbless stands in some
- ent comprehend to the other alernEnts of
.i stronomical system Bhaskara's own commentators, however, *eject Aia theory, and hold to that of a hbtailon, which has beea and I altogether हैं; wevailing doctrine throughout India, and seems to have made its way she into the Arabian, and even into the early European astronoug (see p&shipnaa. as abovt).