30 Stru@-Sadhite . hundred and seventy-four; of that of Venus, nine hundred and three 44. Of the bode of Saturn, the revolutions in an on are six hundred and sixty-two : the revolutions of the moon's apsis and node have been given here already. In illustration of the curious feature of the Hindu system of astro. nomy pre8ented in this passage, we first give bhe annexed table which shows the number of revolutions in the son, or period of 4,820,000,000 years, assigned by the text to bhe apsis and node of each planet, the result; ing time of revolution, the number of years which each would require to pass through an age of one minute, and the position of each, according to the system, in 1850; 'he latter being reckoned in our method, from the vermal equinox. Farther are added the actual positions for Jon. 1, 1850, ES given by Biot ('raité d'Astronomie, ton 529); ४nd finally, the errors of the positions as determined by this Siddhanta. Th३८ of Revolutio® ¢d Pre8et Position of the Apaid¢x (atd Mod88 0) हैe Pats Noof No Resulting Time of revolution True ] Error of ears to planet. re position Hindu position. 1' of in yea¥8, an on D. 1850.|A.D. 1850. position motion.
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--- --- --- > Apxide Sun 887 Merenry, BB8 nus 535 Mars, १04 Jupiter, 900 Saturn. 39 Nodes Mercury, 488 Venus, 90 aza. 214 Jupiter, 17¢ 8atLin 6B 11,63,780.7 1,798,130,* 8,074,786.4 2118470.8 4,800,000.0 10,769,280.8 516.8 86 41 100 22A 543.5 288 16 255 7 878.8 97 39 ! 809 24 $80.4 14 49 158 18 22,2 189 2 ]9 55 5123.2 25 24 27 6 6 18 B6 32 211 45 5 29 ४ 48 15 42 8,852,459.0 4,784,053,2 20,186,916.8 24,827,586.2 6,626,878,2 09.8 22.5 34.6 1149.4 802.1 38 27 7 28 67 49 8 26 118 में 46 33 7819 8 28 98 84 012 22 8 6 + 2 । + 3 26 1 28 + 5 45 A nere iruspection of this table is Bufficient to show that bhe Hindu astronomers did not practically recognize any motion of the appides and nodes of the planets; since, even in the case of bhose to which they assigned 5be most rapid notion, bwo thousand years, at the least, would be required to produce such a change of place as they with their imperfect uneans of observation, would be able to detect This will, however, be made still more clearly apparent by the next following table, in which we give the positions of the appides and nodes