208 Shrg¢-Siddhanta . | been variously misinterpreted, are mude entirely clear by supplying the words astrism unra * portion. १hrou; |out, ple: they are to be under stoo, thu {he busterin U{ at:As at the middle of the portion styled Pita-Ashalh; I 1sterinm Abhjit It ik at t](nd of the portion Pirva-Ashf¢h: १he position of the txtarism ravana is at the end of the perion receiving is name from !tury-Atladhi ; while the materia travish¢b& is between the thir and furth guarters {of the portion numned for gravana After this tearoption t७ ॥he regularity of orrespondence of the two sysis +ri Ableiji, le | leftwithout a Portion, nnl the portion gravishtha eontainin, 100 axlesis they g) o n harvnnious ly together to flo closeThe figure k:$ elerly bis (ondition of things, and shows that, if Abhijit b {z unt of account, the ty७ &y°tons Agree $o war as his—that front-six asteris: within the limits of portions b6ring the same a whi {he liser:Hyes Ze emined to one portion of the slipticthat capyrigiz the 2!th to tte art porting If, on The other hand, the v tie }by divile itute wenty-eighhs, and if those be give ty ortion; t ७ १y $("i87118, 11 is 51 fror the figure that h scordance between n: two systems will be very gr५% that only in two ve instances will ]y!jon b {c}{1. by t}} usfrist1 bearing its own name }; b htt len hant; i sixt::n l°s asterism1s ill bo found to fal within t inmits of portion of litForent name ta& four portions will be left witlant any scrisrn at all, if fou+ ©bers wil contain the each 'hese discordances are nough of thems«ves to set the whole subject of the asterisms in a new liglut. Whereak it might have seemed, from what we have seen of it leftoforः, that have system was founded upon ) = division of the ecliptic info bonty-seven :mal portions, and the selection of 2 &bar or a const]]ntion to mark theh portion, and t] bo, As it wone, its rule, it now uppeture that the series of twenty-eight asteristm ray be something independent of, and anteriox to. any division of the ycliptic into equal ares, and hat the one may have been only artificially brought into connection with the other, complete harmony between them beiux altogether impossible. And this view is fully sustained by idence (evivable from outside the Hindu science f storny antl beyona bhe borders of India The Parsis, {e Arabs , and tle Cliase, are found also to be in possession of a similar system of division of he heaven5 into twenty-eight portions, marked or separated by as many single *t®rs o" constellations. f the Pirsi Bystem little or nothing is known excepting the nupmber and names of the divisionswhich are given in the second chapter of the Bundehesh (see Anquetil du Perron's endavesta, ete., i. B48). The Arab divisions are styled Pandit al-Rama lun&2' transing , tutime of the moon, being broght into special connection with the moon's revolution; they are marked, like the Hindu portions," by groups of atord. 'The first extended
