and returning, then moving west and returning) occurs regularly, (each increase or decrease taking place) once in five divine years (i.८., once in 1800 ordinary years). The p0sition of the equin0xes at a speciffe date 18. Taking the time when one-eighth of the dawn of the Kali age had passed and increasing this number by its one-hundredth part (we find) a moment when the two solstices were roughly in the middles of Sagitarius (Dhanus) and of Gemini (Mithuma), respectively. Eplcycles of the e१uations of the centre and conjunction 19 8-b. (The centres of ) the circles, along which (the mean motion of) the planets takes place, move on (the circumference of) the epicycle of the equation of the centre (7107da epicycles) with the velocity of the higher apses. 19 c-d. In the case of the Sun and the Moon it (i.e., the 707d epicycle) has its centre at the centre of the Earth-sphere. 1. One divine year is equal to 360 ordinary years . Thus, to complete one oscillation, both ways, it would take 4x(5X360) 7200 years 2. The twelfth part of the total duration of a y1g0 in beginning is its dawn (sandya) and the twelfth part at the end is Kali-age o x4320000 Kali-age dawn x 432000 One-eighth part of above x36000 One-hundredth part of the above 100 Date specified
37 3. The date works out to the Kali year 4545 (A.D. 1443). For : No. of years in a catur-yugar =432000 years = 432000 36000 4400 45 4545 Kali its the The author says in his commentary that he has mentioned this to specify the year of his birth. C, स्वजन्मकालज्ञापनार्थं चैवमुक्तम् । तदा अहर्गणश्च ‘त्यजाम्यज्ञलां तकैः' (16,60,181) इति । (p. 17, above)
