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Periphery of the mount Meru's cross-section (with centre J) on that earth,
Moon
Inng limit of Innermost Solar or lunar mandala (cfutnal eircie) Sun 48%69 Y
Outer limit of the innermost solar mandala
56Y
Outer fimit of the imermost
lunar mandala 510Y (183 solar mandala s)
5095%64 510494
(14 lunar mandalas)
Fig. No. 2 North-south angular distances (projected over surface of earth) between
extreme solar and lunar mandalas (diurnal circles) respectively as implied in Jaina canonical texts. (N. B. This exposition related to a situation prior to the development of notion of celestial latitude of moon.)
In the light of this discussion, it may be contemplated that lunar mandala theory has been developed on the guidelines of solar mandala theory. The notion of declination is equally implied in the concept of lunar mandala (diurnal circle of Moon).
(This paper had been accepted for presentation at the 15th International Conference on History of Science, Edinburgh, Scotland]
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