! Heltactl Risings and settings 261 This verse should follow immediately after verse 16, to which it attaches itself in the closest manne¥. The dialoetion of angement in bhe latter part of this chapter is uite striking, and is calculated to suggest ॐ auspicion of interpolations. 'The directions given in the verse require no explanation: bhey are just Ruch an adapt&tion of the processes aroady prescribed to the case of bhe fixed sta8 s that made in verso 14 of the last chapter. The commstay points out again that the calculation of the correction for latitude (akshudra karma) is to be made only for the horizon , or १s stated in the first half . verse of the rule 18. Abhijit, Brahmalhaya, Svati, yravana (wishing, gravighbf (obava), and ttara-Bhadrapada (bhirbudhung), owing to their northern situation, are not extinguished by the Sun's ralys. It may seem that it would have been a move orderly proceeding to omit the stars here mentioned from the specifientions of verses 12-15 above; but there is, at least, no inconsistency of inanccuracy in the double statement of Abe text, since some of the stars may novor abtain that distance in oblique ascension from the sun which is there pointed out as their lini& of visibility We have not thought it worth the trouble to go through with the calcula• tions, and ascortain whether, according to the data utd methods of this treatise, these six stars, and these alone, of those which the treatise notices, would nevert become invisible at Ujjayini. It is evident, however, a8 has already been noticed abovo (viji. 20-21), that the start called Brahma or 'rsjjpati (8 Aurigeis noth here baket into account, since it is 8° north of Brahnahraxy, and consequently cannot become invisible where the latter does not.
