Mea Motions of the Planets creatise itself. The repeated revolation of the system in each successive Gzaat Age, as stated in verse 8, presents no difficulty Is is the Puranie docbine (see Wilson's Vishnu Purana, p. 268, etc.) that during the fron Age bha Bou¥ces of knowledge becorne either corrupted or loet, so that a new Zevelation of scripture, law, and science beconnes.necessary during +he Age succeeding 10. 'ime is the debtroyer of the worlds; another Time bas for its nature to bring to pass. This atter, according as it is gross or minube, is called by two na.ne, real (nirta) and unreal (arीrt=} There is in this verse a curiou migling together of the poetical, the ibeoretical, and the practical. To the Hindus, q$ +o us, Eise is, in a Metaphorical sense, the greate detroyer of all things ; as such, he is identi. fied with Death, and with Yaunma, the ruler of the dead. Time, again, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, has both its imaginary, and its appre ciable and practically useful divisions the formey are called Zeel (wityta, }terally ernbodied ), the latter unreal (opीrta, itorally ff unen bodied '"). he following verse explains these divisions more fally. The epithet atolent mt:ka, applied to actual time in the first half of the verse, is not easy of interpretation. The g0nmentary bracelates ॐ ‘‘ is an object of knowledge, is capable of being known, "" which does of s0em stafacto: It evidently containk a suggested etymology (kild ,
- time, from httu), and in t¥anslating it as above we have seen in it
also an antithesis to the epithet bestowed upon Time the divinity. Periaps ¢t shotuld be rather ( ha8 for its office emuneration 1. That hielh begins with respirations (priza) is called real; that which begins with atoms (fr) is called nreal. Six respirations make a sta, sixty of those a f¢k 12. And sixty na¢is make a sidereal day and night . Tho manuscripts without commentary insert, as the first half of v. 11, the usual definition of the length of a respiration : the time occu: pied in pronouncing ten long syllables is called a respiration. The table of the divisions of aidereal tiumne is thon as followE : 10 long syllables greakshar) 1 respiration (priaperiod of four seconds) : 8 respiration '#g] {period of te 60. Vipadi५ nuj {period of twenty-four miau 60 46¢t© 1 day {i This is the method of division usually adopted in the astronornical text-books: it pos8eEBes the convenient property tbhaf its lowest subdivision,