Sirya-Sidhhat recognised in the fact that the time of bhe moon's sidereal revolution in day, longh intermediate between the two numbeia, i$ ¥t decidedly Deare* %o twet-seven exceeding it by less than 4 hira. M. Bioid might even claim with some reason that the hoice of the number tw©nty-eighb tended to prove the whold ystem not a lunar one by origin : yet it might be replies that, tthe time of revolution being dis kindly more {han twenty-seven day the larger numbe> was fully admis sible, and that was also in && expects preferablk, ading on tha| could be halved and quartered . 30, p. 20. In ringing this work to else •e dee j।. advisable ko orbent, in a sunrnary nameg, buहै 111are distinctly and onnectedly than :ould properly be dome prote* up{m the ext, or (onclusions as to certain points in the history of the $1 iyya-siddhant , ad of {} 4stronomical science which it ¥yesoots. In the first l •e Bentley •6«rminator) f the age of &kne trea fix We •onceived to be logptlar yet uside by the considerations which I jav• krned Again»t it (note to 94) +h¢er ask.} rnma My questioning that the Sinya-Siddhanta In the Hindu have Mong helid {1. to 0B { the Inset meiont and ari nal of the works which esent their aten ason nical science. How jar the ex% of wwhic) औhe .ranslation has been given above identical irr; substant and extent with +le of the original Siya-sidkan be 1A any question. and N9 not eaःe to Kore 'hat it is not precisely the same is wid०nt veर modern । kr•ripts life form 9th in an
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emajor of the texts adopted and established by the different con mandators would be highly interesting , a8 ९anying the history of the treatise a step farthe: ®a«k; but to us nly one conomerntary is access ble, nor do we find anywhere any notices opeeding he versions given by the others | the lkyne of such, we may con ude that all pre. sens substantialy the sanue text, and you are alike posterior to the mode Air 0 1.ht work into i; 'esent. forn and will its preFont contents. But the indications of addition and interpolation, which we have had in so mnany eake& to point (at in our notes, are Bometime; too telling to bf ikiterpreted. Further than this we may not at present go any de. £ailed discussion of the subjoi must remain nunsatisfactory, until a fuller acquaintance with other of the ancient areatiaes, and a more careful compriso of them with one another, alhall throw upon it new light, A point of special interes :Opmete with it is, whethu Dhe elements of rnean motions of the planet do actually date fronm about the time pointed out by Bamtey 'k calculations With regard to this we are fa fxon being confidenb; but we do not regnd it as impossible Ot even a8 very inaprobable, that those elements, by presented by our text, have