334 3brg®Siddhanta r leave any probability to the supposition that two nations could have de vised the independently. Bot b}here are sufficient grounds for beliey Ing the (Greflks to have actually created their 11 Byst]] bringin by successive Ates of claboration to th form in which Polcnly finally presents, it. In the history of the st:ient annomg the (reks, everything is clea7 and open ; they toll us what they owed to the Egyptians, 1bat to he Chadeus : ye trace { •onwptions which were the germs of their scherne of opieycles, the: observations on which it was b8Bed, the inactie en dझrti। methol by which 1, a orked out and estab lisherl If the Hindu at renov on the other td, all in grounless axonnption and nbxr pretux' {ind, s lbasis for the #ystem, n•b the comeeption--for those a dirth impliedly denied or ignored- not the ohnservatiots--for not a ion of an actua] %83rvatio 1B An whefo && js)veerrr thi method the whole is gravely pat fort}h as a •omplete i perfect alb f ; it. rigin and innmentoriant antiquity () है। re1nt of the *o sciences Irn joint of numerical dat we 1pt lay r) str; <ince it might well enough b supposed bhat two hai if on: :et upon the runk back toward the discovery of truth, wat awie independently at snnear P. Accordance with na ture and witl1 61 1Another . Be will look for other evidencks, of a lek; arlbiguous Marator, to sustain our main argument The division of the &rule int) : dlegrees. minut ml Recorr]s h the same in br; systems, and, being the foundation on which all numerie theasurements and calculation |re tal: j« ? १ential an integral part of both. Now the names of t}} firs# *Blivision #h+ <!g):, 1are fos km Grgeee and in thdia (see |ble to 58}: but with the (Greeks they belong to certain fixed arts of the etliptie, being derived from the constellation youpying those ares with the Hindus they are applied to succ•xi: area of 80°, counted from any point that may be chosen this is an un ambiguous indication that the latter have borrowed them and forgotten or neglected their original significance Bot farther, the ordinary Hindu name of that division of the fircle which i in most frequent use, Jhe minute, is no Sanskrit word, h it taken freetly from the (tek, being ipth, which is Mercy Again, the planets are ordinarily named in the Siddharths in the order in whicl; they 31cceed one Yother as regents of the days of the week ; and not only hus it been shown above that the week is no original Hindu institution, lbut it hax even eppeaked thnt. on tracing it to its very foundation, we find there nother (Greek wor represented by aord. nce move, in the cardinal opention of ind. img by means of the system of epicycles the true place of a planet, we See that one of the most important data, the mean anomaly, is called by another name of Greek origin, namely sendra whiteh is Kevr९०y heEle three words, occurring where they do, not upon the outskirts of
