stra6&ddenta 22. In all works, one must avoid the terrible trio of Jyut pitas, as also the brio of ga@ites, and this tio of junctions of asterism 'he division of the ecliptic into twenty-sevenths, or asteriEme, coin . cides with its division into twelfths, or signs, at the ends of the ninth, eighteenth, and twenty-seventh asterisms, which are also those of the fourth, eighth, and ywelfth sigms respectively. To this innocent circura. stance it seems to be owing that those points, and the quarters of portions, or arcs of 2007, on either side of them, he regarded and stigmatized as unlucky and onminous, Honce the title backwith; >dhi is literally putting together, joint,’’ and bha is, as haB been noticed elsewhere (note to i. 9-12, a name both of the starians end of the signs. In which of its various senses the word ganda is used in the compound gadanot, we do not kmow. 2B . Thus hat been related that Supreme, pure. excellent , mysterious, and grand System of the heavenly bodies : what else dost thou desire to know १ ( In this verse re-appenzE Khe personality of the revealer of the treatise. the incarnation of a portion of the smwhich has been lost sight of since nea¥ the beginning of the work (i. 7). 'The questions addresEed to him, in ®nswer to this upped, by Maya, the rocipient of the revelation, introduce the next chapter, which, with the two thhat follow it, contains the addition! explanations and instructions vouchsafed in reply. The last three chapters confessedly constitute a separate portion of the work, which is here divided into a pu}h¢c and an attra khup¢, or J < former Part '१ and latbet Part,’’ It is by no means impossible that the whole second part is an appendix to the tex€ of the Siddhant as originnlly constituted. The title of tho next following chapter is bhigotskyign, "" chapte of the earth-globe : in the second part of the treatise the chapters are styled ०४४४, letion, instend of, as hitherto, utikara, ' heading.'
