CHAPER XI OF PHI ARMILABY SPHERE, AND OTHER INSTRUMEN’s. CHEME :-1-8, construction and equipment of the Brmillary sphere; 18-16, position of certaib points and sine upon it; 25.16, i&& doetnant and revolution; 17-25, other instruments, especially for the determination of time. 1. Then, having battled in a secret and pure place, being pure, adorned, having worshipped with devotion the sur, the planets, the asterisms (bha, and the elves (glag hgau) , 2. Let the teacher, in order to the instruction of the pupil himm8clt beholding everything clearly , in १ecordance with the knowledge }handed down by successive sommunication, an earned from the mouth of the master (yet) 3. Prepare the wonder-working f;brie: of the terrestrial ani xtella Albero (bhbhatta) We have &lready remarked above (nsts to xii 1-9) thnt the ५ulject of this chrupter' is one reRpecting which no inquitnes were addressed at the beginning of the preceding chapter by he recipient to the communi cator of the revelation, and that the chapter accordingly wear in some measure the apact of an interpolation. It comes in here as furnishing a means of illustrating to the pril the mutual relation of the Earth and tite heavena as explained in the last chapter--And yet not precisely as there explained; for is gives a representation only of the Earth and of the one 80ary concave upon which the apparent movementg of na the heavenly bodies are to be traced, and not of the concentric spheros andl orbits out of which the universe has been declared to be constructed 'he chapter has a peculiar tible, unlike twab of any other in the treatise; it is styled gotiahopanishadd¢gg¢gy, lection of the ast6xonornioal Upani. shad." Upanishad is the marme ordinarily given to such brief threatises, of the later Vedic period, or of times yet note modern, a8 are regardid as inspired sources of philosophical and theological knowledge, and are locked upon with peculiar Yoverence: its application to this hapter is equivalent to au assumption to it of especial sanctity and authority =
