Srya-Sidd. bhat it is composed of two 8tars, ot nearly equal brilliancy, and two is the number allotted to it by the jakalya. and Khapta-Kazaka, bhs eastern being pointed out below {y. 19) as the junction-star. The pair are the two bright stars in the heads of the wins, or a and B Gominorumand २he latter (1,3) is the junction-stat. The comparison of positions is as follows: Punarau E Germinoram @2° 52 $8° 34 6° 0' N 8° ३०' M The Graha-Laghava adds 1° to the pola' longitude of Punavu as stated by the other authorities , Four stars are by some assigned to this asterism, and with that number corresponds the representation of its aPrungement by the figure of a house it is quite uncertain which of the neighboring starts of the Barne constellation ar; to be added to those above mentioned to form bhe group of four, but w® think y (mgm, 4) and 0 (5) bhose most likely to have been chosen; Colebrooke suggests + (3.4) and ' (5.4) he dotorminative of the fifth &i¢ay singis p Geminorum (B), which, as we have seen, is ze:korced among the stars composing the sixth Aa .gi, the seventh P2.x includes, like the Hindu asterism, a nd p Geminorum : it is natmod adh-Dhirk, the paw -i.e., of the Lion; the figure of Le (see Tacle, p. 152 etc.) being by the Arabs so stretched out as to cover parts of Gemini, Gancer, Canis Minor, and other neighboring constellations. 8. P¢khg; from the root pu&a , f nourish, bhrive s; another fequent name, which is the one employed by or treatise, is ti8agge, which is translated ff auspicious Atmare gives also yिa, rosexध8.Its divinity is Bhaspati, the priest and teacher of the gods. It comprises three stars—the Khanda-Kabaka loc scords to give it but one-Cof which the middle one is the unctiou-ster of the asterismThis is shown by the position assigned to it to be k Cancyri (4): Pushya ॐ Cancri 105° 108° 42 0° 0' 0° 4' N. The other two are doubtlas£ 2 y (4.6) and ” (6) of the same constella tion : the asterism is figured as a cresent and as* १n arrowand the range ment of the group admity of being regarded as representing a rescentox the barbed head of an arrow. Were he artow the only figure given, is might be possible to regard the group ५s composed of y, & and B (4), the latter representing the head of the arrow, and the nebulous cluster, Presepe, between y and y, the feathering of ts shaft : 0 (105° 4BC-0° 48/S.) would then be the junction-spar. The Arab digit, an-Nabhrah the nossgap —i.8,, of the Lon. pompriseE Y and 8 Cancri, together with Presepe; or, according to some
