- Gertti Maigat Aspects of the San and Moon 27£
kowis properly used in bhnt sense, while it is of frequent occurrence else where in this trentise with the meaning - inte The natural rendering of the line would seem to be + when there is between the sun and moon the interval of a circle, situated in the aame (ya71c 'his, however, yields no useful meaning, since such a description could only apply to an actual conjunction of the sun nd moon. We do not see how the difficulty is &c be *olve, unless it be allowed ux, in view of the discordance already pointed put us existing betwe:n le plain 1eaning of the previous passage and that attributed to it by the commentator, to assurne that the text has been tampered with in this verse, Ind made to furnish a different sense from that it originally bad, partly by a forced interpretation, but partly also by such an alteration of its rewings as disablex it from yielding any other inte}ligible meaning 18. When the equality of declination of the sun and moon take place in the neighbourhood of the equator, tle aspect may them again occue a second time : in the contrary case, it may fail to (occur. Near kh {:५minox, thera teclination changes rapidly, the moon, as the swifter Flowinng boly , may corne to have twice, ip rapid succession, the surne declination with the sun, and 1pon the opposite sides of the oquator, Ner the solstice on the other hand, where the ecliptic and equator ave nearly parnil¢l, the moon-if she happens to be nearer the equator than the sur is owing to hex latitudemay pn£s the region in which the aspect muld otherwise be liable to occur, without having had १५ declinetlion qual in amount to tlet of the sun 2). If tle sum of the longitudes of the sum and moon, in minutes, on being divided by the portion (bhoga) of an asterism (4), yields a quotient between sixteen and seventeen. there is Another, a {hird, gath) Phis is Sitaply R. xpecial appliedtion of the rule formerly given (ii. 65) for finding , for any given time, the current period named yogy. The Beventeenth of the series, as is shown by the list where given, has the same name, ®y¢tipadwith one of the aspects breath of in this chapter : judging from verse 22, belowit is also regarded as possessing a like potentous and malignant character. 21 Of the anterisms (hah¢4@) A¢lesh& (8%rpa), Jyeshtha (danda, and Revat (pushing), the last quarters are junctions of the asterisms (basdhi}; the first quarter in the asterisms follow ing these respectively is styled ghantag.