x SURYA STUDEHANTA These, however, cannot be traced in the modern book. It appears bhat some stanzas have been deleted or replaced by new ones ; some again were rejected as interpolation by the commentator Raiganatha. Do this latter class belongs a stanza got by Burgess after I, 8 in his transcripts witlbout the conmentary A Bengali editior * of the S firya Siddharta records twenty-one additional stanzas between xiv, 28 and 24, which speak of the application of a system of corrections called Baja to the mean places as calculated from the Srgb Siddhanta. These stanzas were no doubt a later addition Burge55 at the end of his translation rightly observes :
- The Sarya Siddhanta, in the form in which i8 is here
presented, as accepted by Raiganabha and fixed by his com. mentary, contains exactly five hundred verses. This number, of course, cannot plausibly be worked upon as altogether accidental no one will question that the treatise ba; been intentionally wrought into its present Compa88 There can be no reasonable doubt that the text of the breatee has anaergOne since its origin not unimportant extension and modification As we have already said we are inclined to understand that the original Syrgy Saddlbizata came from the pyra of Babylonia , source, and the date of its arrival was about 400 A.D. The question now ia, could it not have arrived much earlier? In our opinion this does not seem probable for reasors set forth in the following brief historical review of Hindu astronomy from the earliest Vedic times. A Birt8-६५० v३eb of Hindu A storong frozthe Vedic T¢7288 to 80 A.D. so far as we have come to discover of the astronomical knowledge current in Vedic timeswe find that the chief require. ments for the performance of Vedic sacrificere were to find as Eccurately as possible the equinoctial and solstitial days, and
- Sarya Siddhinto, rendered into Bengali, by vinals. Plsida Siaahants .
Saraswa, CEcutta, 1896,