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light partially,48 a darkening49 becomes noticeable at its limb, which is slight. When the moonlight is completely covered by Parva Rahu from all sides (sapadidisim),50 while passing into the space in between the Earth and the Moon so that the eclipse is total, it ordinarily remains easily visible to the naked eye, for it shines dimly with a dull reddish light, as it is stated in Jaina Astronomy that "the people in the human world perceive the total eclipse from the Earth, when the Moon is immersed in the body of Parva Rahu at the time of total eclipse."51
Here the question arises how it is possible for the Rahu having a vimāna of half a yojana to cover the light of the Moon having a bigger vimāna of 5 yojana than that of the Rahu. The answer is: (1) The half a yojana-measure of the Rahu is not always necessary. The Rahu can have a bigger vimāna than that of the Moon, or (2) the dark rays of the Rahu is so strong, though its vimāna is smaller, that it can cover the entire Candramandala.52
The Suryasiddhānta explains this question of eclipse in this way that if the grahya (the object of covering) is more covered by the shadow of the graha or grāhaka (the coverer), then there occurs total eclipse-lunar
48 Bhagavati Vyakhyaprajnapti, 12. 6. 453-455.
Suriyapannatti, pahuda 20.
Camdapannatti, pahuda 20.
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49 yesu divasesvatisayena tamasa abhibhuyate sasi tesu-tadvimanam (rahuvimanam) vrttamabhati, candraprabhaya bahulyena prasarabhavato rahuvimanasya yathavasthitatayopalambhat 1
Comm. on, Vimsati Pahuda, Suriyapannatti, p. 290.
tenam vattaccheo gahane u tamo tamobahulopau (1)
Visesanavati, Jinabhadragani, vide the comm. on Suriyapannatti, pahuda 20. (comm.).
50 Bhagavati Vyakhyaprajnapti, 12.6. 453-5.
Sariyapannatti, pahuda 20.
Camdapannatti, pahuda 20.
51 Bhagavati, Vyakhyaprajnapti, 12.6. 453-5.
Sariyapannatti, pahuda 20.
Camdapannatti, pahuda 20.
52 candravinaiasyapancaikassatibhagaryanayojanapramanatvat
rahuvimanasya
ca
grahavimanatvenarddhayojanapramanatvat katham rahovimanasya sarvatmana cangrahavimanamarddhayonjanamiti pramanam tat
dravimanavaranasambhavah?
prayikamavaseyam, tato rahorgrahasyoktadhikapramanamapi vimanam sambhavyate iti na kadacidanupapattih, anye punarevamahuh-rahuvimanasya mahan bahalastimisrarasmisamahastato laghiyasa api rahuvimanena mahata bahalena tamisrarasmijalena prasaramadhirohata sakalamapi candramandalamavriyate tato na kasciddosah.
Comm. on pahuda 20. Sariyapannatti, p. 289.
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