Copogong, Geography, Die8ows of the ratio 29 . 70. When passing oerhead at Bhadragva, the Sun is rising in Bhtrata ; it is moreover, at that time, midnight in Ketanhala , and sunset in Kuru ?1. In like manner also he produces, by his revolution, 10 Bharata = atd cle other elines, MODIn Sunrise, midnight, and sunset. reckoning from east to west. 72. ifo one going toward Meru, there take place an elevation of the pole (hyp} and a depression of the circle of asterisms to one going toward the place of no latitute, on the contrary, a depression of the former and an elevation of the latter . Lis detailed Exposition of he varying relations of day and night in different parts of the globe is quite creditable to the ingenuity, and the distinctness of approhension, of those by whom it was dram out. It is for the most part so clearly expressed as to need no additional explanations : we shall append to it only = fow brief remarks. How far, in verse 4b a true statement is given of the cause of the heat of Gunmer and the cold of wir1 ter, may be made a matter of 8ome question : the word which we have branslated + nearness (18027tx) has no right to noan "" directness, perpendicularity, ’’ and yet, when taken in connection with the preceding vurse, it may perhaps admit that signifioation . 'The second chapter shows that the Hindus know very we!! €hat the sun is actually nearer to the whole eath in winter, or when nea his periges, than in summer. 'he expression eyelit, at {he end of an gyaaa, enmployed in verses 51 and 61, and which we have wondered by a paraphrage, might pertheps have been as well translated, briefly and simply at either solsties. Phobably «y?w¢, as used in the sense of solstice (see above end of note to i. 9-12), is an abbreviated form of (d¢h»k¢, like j®d for ४irha (ii. 15-2), and daksh for ashooti (i, 80) In verse 55, we have translated by toword the right aude toward the left the adverbs Booyd and updBuzzya, which menn literal left yi83 and ‘‘ right-wise ; that is to say, in such a manne that the left side of the right side respectively of the bhing taking the revolution is turned toward that about which the revolution is made, this being the XHindu mode of describing the pESing of one person about another person or thing, expecially in rospectful solutation and in religious ceremonial The natural measure of the day and of the night is assumed in verse 66 etc. to be the half of a whole day, or thirty nadia, and any devision from hhat norm is regarded as an excess (dhanta, yddhi) or a deficiency (, Kani, Mehcy). The former processes 1eferred to at the end of verse 68 are xhose taught in jii. 60-82,
