Surge-Siddhdina selves. We can hardly Boppose that they were not originally applied in dependently to the lunar months and certainly, no more suitable deriva. tion could be found for the name of a lunar period then from the asterist1 ia whicf the moon attained during its continuanot the fult beauty and perfection. In later timesas we have already been (note to i. 48-51}, the true Junar nmonths are entirely dependent for their hommenclature upon the eolar months, according to the determination of the latter, as regards bheir commencement, and duratiful, by the date and methods of the modern astro nomical ecionce, 'There has been handed down another system of names for the months (see Colebroke in Aa, IRes , vii. 284; Essays, i. 201), which have nothing to do with the storisms whether they no to be regarded as more Ancient than the others we do not know. Toy are---commencing with the first mouth of the season Vasanta, Gy w] »hat one which in the other system is called Chitra—as follows: Madhu, Madhava, Qukra, ucis Nahbhas, Nabhasya, Ishat, ria, Sahas, Sahasy, Tapak, 'aphsy. For the sake of n clearer understanding of the relations of the astorisms, months and seasons, we r:sont their correspondences below in a +albula form BRA, Mount Asterisms in which thः। 8een. Varad. {(Oct. Nov.) { Eratika ( Rolipi. Marg¢iraha, |p,-DC Herman fa. {{stralia { | pushp (Dec.ap.) Punar wasu { A¢lakhs. (45.-Feb.) @i¢ira. Phalguna. P. Phalgum U. Phalguu { { citya. Citra. {b¥ar.-Apr) V Banta, {V%igakha (Ap.May.) {. Anuradha {yearbha. Grshna. {Jyaishtha. May-one.) Achha. (June-Jnly. १९८&Bha, '(Jaly-A®g.) {£.-ABhi¢h. U.-Ashadbha. { £ea¢x rayjab¢) ( valabbiabaj P.-Bhadrapada, 0.Bhadrapada Varsha Bhadrapada. (Aug.-Bept.) varad. Avina { *(Sept•Oct.) { Birrant.
