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XXIV. Jer de Sa'd alsn'ud--three small stars, B. & in Aquarius, and c in the tail of Capricorn.
xxv. Ana i de Sa'd Allaķhbiat,-four stars on the right hand of Aquarius ; three of them represent a triangle,-they are ducks, -- and the fourth within is Sa'd himself; the three first stars are sometimes also called the house. The Sa'ds among the Arabs are nine or ten; the majority of them are not mansions of the moon, but are scattered about in various constellations.
XXVI and XXVIL PAROJI Jould u Fera' al-dal alm ddim, the anterior interval between the handles of the urn from which the water is poured out, and soll Jolly Fera' al-dul almuwaķhịhar, the posterior interval. Each of these mansions consists of two bright stars at
some distance from each other; they are all in Pegasus and appear to be a, or Markab; % or Algenib; Alperab, and s.
XXVIII. wysub. Batn al-hût, belly of the fish. This is a bright star with small ones near it. A woman with a chain is said to have represented this constellation ; but the Arabs made a fish of it, in the body of which this star is; it is no doubt the one marked
Baten Kaitos" in our catalogues. Some have named this mansion ! Ersha, the rope, so that the urn should not be without one.
In conclusion I may observe that astronomers differ somewhat, in the description of several of the mansions, but on the whole this list will be found pretty correct, and I only regret that in drawing it up I could not avail myself of Ideler's Untersuchungen über die Sternnamen, which would no doubt have made it a great deal better than it is.
CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. VERSE 33 OF CHAND'S 27TH CANTO.
Fig. 1.
the verse in question. (Ante, vol. III. p. 339).
Exceptions excepted, SIR.-I cannot offer a better apology than that
it accords with the which Mr. Growse has embodied in the prefatory
7 Sat.
situation to which remarks to his "Notes on the 27th Canto of Chand
victory is ascribed. for attempting translation of verse 33, especially
From a comparison of its last line, in order to rescue it, if I can, from
the two figures, it the obscurity which envelopes it. In a verse 80
appears that Saturn, highly technical, the solution of the difficulty may
the most powerful, and be sought for in the particular development which
the Moon, the most Hindu astrology has received, and the stand-point
important planet in which the poet has assumed.
Fig. 2.
such calculations, and Hindu astrologers have conceived certain ab
Venus, have no place stract situations in connexion with the position
assigned to them in which planets assume in the course of their
the 2nd figure. This rotation, which, individually, they hold up as
is accounted for by atproductive of the highest excellence which falls
tention to some of the to the share of a person whose birth coincides
technical and synony. with the conjunction, in the department to which
mous terms the poet the situation may be referred. By analogy, the
uses. Thus bharath influence of these situations is extended to the
bhal is synonymous perfect success of particular achievements taken
with the Moon, bhaup at & moment when the conjunction is pre
rath having the signidicted to happen. The situations are reduced to fication of deer.' The word chakra in the following three heads; namely, Spišti, Wisdom; Sthiti, line bears this out, it being commonly the Moon's Royalty ; Samhar, Victory.
weapon, as the trident is of Mercury. Further, the The poet bad undoubtedly in view the last context assigns the same place to the Moon as it category when he constructed the 33rd verse. gives to Mercury. The epithet baliya marks out The figure constructed in the margin makes Krur as Saturn; the lesser krurs, i.e. the Sun and an approach to the ideal of Victory. Figure Mars, have already their houses assigned to them, No. 2 may be constructed from the unequivocal Udaya is lagna, and Saturn at once takes its proper materials which enter into the composition of place. Moreover, it is in its own house where it is
