Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce, Etc. of Ancient and Modern India, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 - 378 pages |
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Page 11
... particular planet whom he there represents . description of the thirty - six Dreshcanas , is given towards the close of Varahamihira's treatise on the casting of nativities , entitled Vrihat Jataca . " The But , supposing the Indian ...
... particular planet whom he there represents . description of the thirty - six Dreshcanas , is given towards the close of Varahamihira's treatise on the casting of nativities , entitled Vrihat Jataca . " The But , supposing the Indian ...
Page 12
... particular name . Each sign contains thirty degrees ; but the Hindus also divide the twelve signs into twenty - seven parts , * which they call con- stellations , or places of the moon , reckoned in the twelve signs ; every sign is ...
... particular name . Each sign contains thirty degrees ; but the Hindus also divide the twelve signs into twenty - seven parts , * which they call con- stellations , or places of the moon , reckoned in the twelve signs ; every sign is ...
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... particular name ; another of 3,600 years , and one of 24,000 . From the annual motion given by them of fifty- four seconds of longitude in the year , fifty- four minutes of longitude make sixty years , * See Trans . of the Royal Society ...
... particular name ; another of 3,600 years , and one of 24,000 . From the annual motion given by them of fifty- four seconds of longitude in the year , fifty- four minutes of longitude make sixty years , * See Trans . of the Royal Society ...
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... particular , the places of the sun and moon , at the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , were determined by actual observation . " This follows from the exact argument of the radical places in the tables of Tirva- -lore , with those deduced ...
... particular , the places of the sun and moon , at the beginning of the Kaly - Yug , were determined by actual observation . " This follows from the exact argument of the radical places in the tables of Tirva- -lore , with those deduced ...
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... particular view , which they have taken , of the nature and properties of the circle . As to the ac- curacy of the measure here assigned to the radius , viz . 3,438 of the parts of which the circumference contains 21,600 , it is as ...
... particular view , which they have taken , of the nature and properties of the circle . As to the ac- curacy of the measure here assigned to the radius , viz . 3,438 of the parts of which the circumference contains 21,600 , it is as ...
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