Siry-Siddhdata asterism, one part of the process prescribed in the case of a planet, the <!zedkar, or correction tor ecliptic deviation, is to be omitted al- together; since the polor longitude of he asterism, wlhich is given, comes ponds in character with the hydny १ht, or longitude of the planet - १४ affected by ecliptic eviattionwhich must be escort inorl by the yadpk va, le commentary notices the onlission, but efers neither explana. ti8 if nor excuss for it. The other essential modification —that, the asterism {cing exed, the motion of the planet alone is to be used a8 divior in de hermining the place ind tre of the conjunction ---is duly noticed. The inaccuracies itle Hindu rocess for &etermining apparent ongitudes, which, bove noticed ue kept withit }}ounds, where the pianets alone re concerreel, hy the full anmoh of } ei ]ntitudes, would be liable in the case of nman of he asterisms to lead to ।ve errors of result. 16. Of this two Pfalgunis, the yo Bhadrapadas, all like ise the toA«lbadha of A' i:kha. Avi। Ind 1!ga¢fra (jung), the ।ntio}}-xt. /nythiis stated to be the norther (Grm 7. That which is the western northern stay, being the seon sit1nate best vamdi, that is the inf•tion-star of Fasta : of ravisitlh it is the str} 18. ()f yeslitlती, (!rayana, Amrfalha {mit), a Puxiya (\heater), it is the middle stary : of Bharani, Kyttka (ign°ya), al M¢lhi (pitcg). and likewise of Revati. it is the southern : 19. (Or Rohini, Punarwas । (\a itg), antl Mala, it is 1.he १.xtern am H6 as of Alexhतं (sipt) : in the ca8P ()f (ch of the others, the junction-star ("/jati r«R%) is the great (thila) one We have had occasion above, in treating of the filentification of the asterisms, t० ५uestion the accuracy of Apre of these aesignntions of the relative losition of the junction-s{nrs in the groups containing them. We wo not regard the passage as having the same authenticity an authority ith that in which the determintions of the polar longitudeB and latitudes
- ve given ; nnd indeed, we nre inclined to suspect that all which follows the
fifteenth verse in the charte may be a later addition to its original content. It is difficult to see otherwise by the statements given in voses 0 and l of the positions of certain stars should be separated from those presented above, in verses 10-12. A designation of bhe relative position of the iunction•star in each group ought also properly to be connected with a