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Samavāya ninty-eight
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space and increasing night space by ninety eight by sixty-one part of a muhūrta. The sun moves (northward from south) in the latter six month, on its forty-ninth orbit, decreasing night and increasing day by ninety-eight by sixty-one part of a muhūrta.
Ninety eight starsA [in aggregate] are expounded of constellations from Revati to Jyesthā (i.e. 19 in number).
Notes
A. This aphorism, as well as the commentary of Abhayadeva mention the number of stars associated with these nineteen constellations from Revati to Jyesthā. According to Abhayadeva, the aggregate of the stars of these nineteen stars is ninety seven. Regarding the number ninety eight he says that one aster ought to have one star extra. According to some recensions of Suryaprajñapti, the constellation Anurādhā is mentioned as having five stars in stead of four as occurred in Samavāyānga and its commentary of Abhayadevasūri. Thus, discepeńcy over number of stars may disappear in the light of recensions of Sūryaprajñapti.
1. Samavão, p. 298-99.
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