of Bhe Ailurg Sphereand other Instruments B0 at the end of 'Tagus and at the beginning of Lao, and one for the sum at the end of (femini and the beginniug of cance, or ot the solstice also. in the southern hemispher/ three corresponding to bhese. 'the dimensions of which they must be unado are to be d¢termined by their several radi (which are callel day-radit-586 above, ii. 60), as १£certained by calculation and k:lurced to the same anle upon which the cohures and equator wro constructed. hoy are then to be attached to the two gontral suppoding lhoops, or colures, clh at its proper distance from the equator; this istan: , 18 15cuttained by ettlealantiing the decli . nation of the sum when at the points in question, and is determined pon she instrument by the graduation of the wo supporting boops. 'This graduation is in the text called bhu for dlerlination (ripti) and latitude (oilekha&) : it will be ge1tuetabcre that, According to Hindu 12ge, the latter rices Jistance from the ecliptic as rootsurod upon 3 circle of declination. Those likewise of the asterisms (8) situated in the southern and northern hoispheres, of Abhijit, Of the Seven Sages (ctles]agus), olf Agastya, of Bralma etc, are to be fixe() If he order wiven in Bhese vers ure to be strictly followed Dur it15brunnk nust now be burdea with tory bwo additional circles of diurnal evolution), DEl13. those of the twenty-seven junction-stars (yogathra) of the asterism and of that of Abhijit-- which is here especially ten oned not bein! always Yanked aug Alb aseorigmg (sou above. p. 240 etc.)–those of the sevun other fixed 8tury of which the positions were stated in the digloth chapter (vy. 192 and 20-21) and also those of the Seven sagux, or the conspicuous stars in Krsa Major (s end of Bhe last note to th® eighbh clhapter), Such inpteeticable directions, however, cannot but inspire the suspicion that the instrument may never have been constructed except upon papor. s७७ Just in the midst ot all, the equinoctial (Odishayati) loop is fixed. 10. Above the points of intersection of bloat all the Support ing toops are the two solstices (c]a} and the do equinoxes (visio¢f). We have al¥eadly noticed (note to iii. 6) that the celestial equator derives its and form the equinoxes alhrough which it passes, F6 seems a liable strange that the adjustment of the hoop hopresenting it to the two supporting hoops, which we should naturally regard as the first step in
