Indian Antiquary Vol 20

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 51

JANUARY, 1891.]
MISCELLANEA.
The years, however, of the expunged sarvat. of the solar years of the Ninety-Year Cyola, saras in the Table are correct, and the error has called Grahaparivritti, are said by Warren no material effect on that point.
(p. 21) to be " the invention of Father Beschi." The short rule for finding the samvatsaras
But I have seen a Table in accordance with the of the sixty-Year Cycle given on pages
Brahma-Siddhanta, corrected by a blja, exactly 147, 214, of the text and page 22 of the Tables, i
similar to Table I. in the Karana Kamala. requires assistance from Table XVIII. (p. 20);
martanda, a work of as early a date as Saka. but this itself being wrong, the rule also must be
Samvat 980 expired (A. D. 1058). incorrect. It will, however, give correct results The epoch of Vavilala Cuchinna's work is with the Table as it stands, with some rare excep- said to be Friday, 14th March, A.D. 1298 (p. 172). tions. It should be remembered, though, that But I find from actual calculations of the the rule only gives the sarwatsara which stands dhruvas or constants in it (p. 182), that they are current at the commencement of solar year, for the mean noon at Ujjain of the amanta Much might be said on Appendix II. (pp.
Phålguna kşishpa amâvâsya, Thursday, Saka
Samvat 1219 expired, = 13th March, A. D. 1298. 245-289), which describes "a method for expounding dates found in old inscriptions ;" It is said on page 201 that Jupiter's motion but to no particular purpose. Suffice it to say that for one solar year according to Vavilala there are inconsistencies throughout, in the com
Cuchinna's Table XLIIL. (p. 56) amounts to parisons made, and in the Hindu errors established
18 0° 21' 3o 36. But this is a mistake. Vavi. there. The times of the Mdeha-Samkranti are lala's Table for Jupiter, like his other Tables, taken from the first Arya-Siddhanta, while the exactly corresponds with the present Surya, ayandras are taken from the Súrya-Siddhanta;
Siddhunta without the bija. And by actual and the European longitudes are taken as mean, calculation of Jupiter's motion from that Table while those from the Hindu works are apparent. for as many as 471 years, I find that his yearly For an instance, see pages 277-79, where, in motion is 1. 0° 21' 6". establishing the Hindu error as 3° 54' 38' 4", The sun's dhruva entered below Table xx. Warren has made gross errors; first, in sub
(p. 24) is wrong; it should be 11. 15° 26' tracting from the sun's apparent longitude at the 3 23 (Bee D. 182). Also the rema time of the apparent Meeha-Samkrinti of the
below it is misleading below it is misleadir
Tables XX., XXI, Kaliyaga-Sumvat 2382 current (2381 expired) | XLI., XLII., XLIII., XLIV., and XLV. are according to the first Arya-Siddhanta, the ayan-
from From Yavili Cuchi
Vavilala Ouchinna's work; and, if the ambas from the Surya-Siddhanta; then in adding dhruvas in them, which are for about the end of to it the sun's mean motion for nearly 12 the luni-solar year Kaliyuga 4999 current days; and lastly, in comparing the sun's lon. (beginning of 4399 expired), are to be used, the gitude, 11• 23° 30 370, thus found (whether ahargana should be calculated according to his tropical or sidereal, and whether apparent or rule on pages 153 or 177; and the mean places, mean, I do not know how to qualify it), with the calculated with the dhrweas and the ahargana, same amount of European mean longitude.
will be for the mean noon, and not for the mean Warren has mistaken (pages 19, 20, 74) the 87 midnight. The word " midnight "in line 2 from yogas, which are to be calculated from the addi. the bottom, page 24 of the Tables, is so far wrong. tion of the apparent longitudes of the sun and The Tables, however, exactly correspond with moon, and of which he gives a liat in page 74, the Surya-Siddhanta (without blja), and are for the yoga.tards or principal stars of the 87 useful in making calculations according to that nakshatras. Vishkambha and other yoga haveSiddhanta; in which cace the places will be for no connection with y or Arietin, and other midnight. stars.
The Dhrava in Table I. is for the apparent,
while those in Tables XI. and XII. are for the Tables L and II. for finding the initial feris and sidereal beginning of any solar year 2
mean Mosha-Bamkrinti, cording to the Tamil calendar, and the samo Tables XXIV. and Xxv., for the solar and
15 The author of this work wm a king, named Dababala, ton of Virdobana, of the Valabha family. There is a MS. of it, No. 90 of 1870-71 in the Dekkar College collection. The tenth verse of the last chapter of this work runs thos:--Valabh-Anvaya-mato Virdchane-sataḥ adhthidan Dalabalakriman obakre karapam'attamam
16 I find that this amdodoya endod, Mamoan tithi, on the Friday, at 3 gl., 24 palaa, 31'5 m ., after mesa runrise for Ujjain; and thus it will be seen that the opooh of the work is not the time of the mona last conjunction in the year,
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