Sign-Stahaka together constitute Abhijit : it is so to be accounted when twenty-eigh asterisms are reckoned; not otherwise. ’’ Ordinarily, however, the division of bha ecliptie into twenty-seven equal portions jamnade. and Abhijit i8 Sumply passed by in her distribution . After the introduction of the modern method of dividing the circle 2nto aegrees and minutes, bbas last way of setting the difficulty womuld bviously receive a powerful support, Rढून an inereased eurreney, from the fact that a division by twanty-seven gove each portion on even mber of thimates, 800, while a division by twenty-eigh{ ¥1¢lder the | 3 }' and uranageal le quoten6 1; Much yet terrains to bः ne, lbefore the history nn 1st of the system of asterisms, as a prt of the ancient Hindu astronomy and astrong, shall be fully understood 'here as n exist(net an abudant literature, ancient and moderm, upon the subject, which will doubtlex aft some time provoke laborious investigation, anti peppy at with interesting results 'To us hardly any of that literature ack¢ble, mid mly the final results of wids. 0xtended and longkntinue studie५ upon it could be in place here. We have already allotted to the X xngth; me spnk that to sotne may seem adv1sable our exeuke must be the interest of the assor of the system, as part of the ancient history of the rize and pread of astonomical science the importance attachung to the restarche of M Biot, he inadequate attention hitherto paid (hen, and the recent renewal of their discussion in the Journal des Savant , an inally and especially, the fact that in and with the asterisrns is bound up the whole history of Hindu astronormy, prior to its transformation under the overpowering influence of Western science. It he modern subordinate zons. quence only, and appear as barlly gnore than reminiscences of a formes order of things : trom the Sirya-siddhanta might be struck out every line referring to therm, without seriou alteration . ot the character of the treatise Before bringing this not to lkewe present, in the annexed table, a comparison of the true ); ngitudes and latitudley of the junction-stars of the twenty-eight 4%t@J५ms, durived by calculathon from the positionB stated in ou¥ text, with the !enual longitude and latiturlex of the stars with which bhey are probably to be identified In a single cage (the 27th १sterism ), we compare the longitude of one sta and the latitude of another; bhe reason of this is explained above, in connection with the identification of she asterism. We add columns giving the errors of the Hindu deter' rnations of position : in that for the latitude norti direction is regarded as positive, and south direction && negative Upon examining the olumn of eroes of latitude presented in bhis table, it will be seen ha% {hey are to conBiclerable, and boo irreguar, both n amount and in direction, to be plausibly becounted for otherwise than 5 direct errors of observation and calculation . The grossest of bhem, aई has already been pointed outh, are comitted in the measurement of Southin !atitudEwhen of considerable anount, and they are all in the same
