Men diox + be Planets 29. In an Age (), the revolutions of the sun, Mercury, ara Venus, and of the conjunctions (¢ighra) of Mars, Saturn, and ॐupiter, moving eastward, are four million, three hundred and bwenty thousand ; ४. 3 6ite noon, fifty-seven million , seven hundred and
- fty-three thousand, hree hundred and thirty-six; of Mars, bywo
milion, to hundred and ninety-six thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two 31. Of Mercury's conjunction (hight, seventeen million, nine hundred and thirty-geven thousand, and sixty; of Jupiter, three hunred and sixty-four thousand, two hundred and twenty; 82 Of Venus's conjunction (fgre), Bevem million, twentytwo dinosand, three hundred and seventy-six; of SaVura, one hundred and forty-six ttonsand five hundred and sixty-eight; 33. Of the moon's apsis (cc), in an Age, four hundred and eighty-eight thousank, two hundred and three of its node (pi¢8}, 1n the contrary direction two hundred and thirtytwo thousand, two hundred and thirty-eight, 34. Of the acterisms, one billion, five hundred and eight two million, two hundred and thirtyseven thousand, eight hun - dred and twenty-eight. 'The8e ¥e the fundamental and most important eletinents upon which a foundad the astronomica! Bystem of the Sirya-Siddhanta. We pre8eak bhem below in a tabular form, but musb first explain the charBeter of aome of therm especially of some of those contained in verb8 29 . which we have oritted from the table The revolutions of the sun, and of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, require no remark, save the obvious one that those of the sun are n fact sidereal revolutions of the earth about the sun. To the sidegrea revolutions of he moon we add also her synodical revolutions anticipated from the next following pa38age. (see . B%). By the moon's apsis is to be under skood her Apogee ; 12¢ is litterally height. extreme distance: the commentary explains it by numdoect, ff apex of slowest motion : as the same word is used to designate the a¢helia of the planets, we were obliged t bake in transilning it ahe indifferent tem apsis, which applies €qually to both geocentric and heliocentric motion. The node ig ths ascending hode (see i. 7); the dual & nodes 't is never employed in this work. But whe apparent motions of the planets are greatly eomplicated by the fact, unknown to the Greek and the Hindu, bha bhey are evolving abous a centre about which bhe earth also is revolving. When any planet is on the opposite side of the sun fton us, and is accordingly moving in 1.e. ।