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Zodiacal intercept of nāga vithi (snake lane)
Sr. Vithi (Lane)
No.
1.
naga (snake)
2. gaja (elephant)
3.
5.
6.
Rearranging vithis in accordance with their nakṣatras juxtaposed in their natural order vide BBS (see table No. 3),zodiacal intercepts of all the vithis (lanes) and their number of days of invisibility of Venus in inferior combustion. are shown in table No. 4:
airāvata (chief elephant)
4. vṛşa (bull)
aja (goat)
mrga (deer)
Table No. 4
Vithis, their Zodiacal Intercepts and their Numbers of Days
7.
vaiśivānara (fire)
8. jaradgava (old bull)
9.
go (cow)
=
Sum of zodiacal stretches of Asvini (B Arietis), Bharani (41 Arietis) and Krttika ( Tauri) 30+15+30
= 75 muhurtas
=
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intercepts (=ZS) in muhurtas
75
90
90
105
120
75
27
84
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75
105
Duration of inferior combustion in
number of days
Dn
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6
8
10
12
20
22
24
17
14
1
Dn
.166
.125
Thus vithis (lanes) can be represented along the zodiacal circumference as shown in figure No. 1:
.100
.083
.050
.046
.042
.059
.071
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