Astronomy and Cosmology

Author(s): L C Jain
Publisher: Rajasthan Prakrit Bharti Sansthan Jaipur

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measure. Its path is also given through various nakgatras, along eight paths, 109
The motion of planets is not available in the records of practically all the ancient Jaina texts. Only Thāņāńga ( g. 699) mentions ninc orbits of the venus. Samvāyāiga (19.3) states that the venus, rising in the west, moving through nineteen nakşatras, sets in the west alone.
109. Cf. T. P., 7.460-462. For Chinese system, cf. Needham and Ling,
p. 225. Cf. also Neugebauer, pp. 5, 81, 82, 89, 116 (India), 102, 140, 170, 180, 207. In thc Tiloypannatti, details of stars & symbols for their collection are given in 7-463-467. The names of eighty-eight planets are available. Cf. T, P., II, 7.363-370, and so on.
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