of he Asterisk 24B 6f their powers, we cannot well help drawing the conclusion that the accuracy of a Hindu observation is not to be velied on within a degree or two. f0. Agastya is at the end of (kenini. and Eighty tlegrees Route; and Mgavyीdha is situated in the wentieth tegree of Gemini 11 His latitude (wik$) , reckoned Iron his point of declination (epakrat), is forty degrees stR]; : Agni (hutable) and Branahrdaya are in 'aurus, the twentyscord dogree ; 12. And they are reme in latitude (wikshpt), northward, eight and thirty degrees respectively {n connection with the more one ubject of this clhapter we also have loid before us, hree and in fubsequentH$5age (v. 20-21), the defined positions of few fixed tars which are not included in the system of zodiacal asterisos. Thx definition da in the same manner as before by polar longitudes and latitudes. It is not at a difficuli to identify she stars returned to in hese vons; hey were correctly pointed out by Colebrooke, in his article already cited (ASRces. yo}. x) Agasty is a Navia, or nopus. A star of the first ongitude, Andorne of the most brilliant in the southern ho१yems. Its renote soutlhorn position, only 87° from the pole, renders if invisible t an absorvor stationed much to the nortlyard of the 'rvic ( (lear tx Hitan Plate is that of one of the old die ?8/ix, 6 r inspiro sage 'The comparison of is true position with that assigned if b४.o text-which, in his instance, does not require to be reduced to true longitude and latitude-is as follows:
Agasty५ canopus 0° 0' 83 4' 80 s 75 50 s b h v!!a } 'Thn rror of position is |} y: ५ Jaiti bbs other authoritief from the data of our text are correspondingly great 'he siddhanta-viromani and (according to Calebrooks) the Brahma Siddhीnta give Agashya 87° of polar longitude, and {7° ®t latitude, which is a fuig approximation to the truth : the (Graha-Laghave also places it correctly in ]t. 76° $., but makes its longitude only 80°, which is as gross an error as that of the Surya-Siddhanta, but in the opposite direction. '£he Q&kaiya-Samhiti agrees precisely with our as respects the treatise poitions of these four 56asas it does generlly in the numerical ania of bऽ astronomical system.