Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

SR No.: 032566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1913
Total Pages: 464
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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No. 14.]
THE PLANETARY 'TABLES.
(said) dried river bed, bent eastwards; to the north a large jafali tree (i.e. Bignonis Buaveo. lens) ; to the north-east the pond of the tradesman Khasoka and that dried (river) Kaustka. The officer issuing hundred commands is Srigopāla who has obtained the five great sounds. The officer who marks the boundaries is the headman of Chandrapuri (named) Srikshikunda. The nyāyakaranika (is) Janārdana Svåmin. (Witnesses (P) are) the tradesman Faradatta, the Kayastha Dundhanātha, and others. Sasayitrio and writer is Vasu varman. Master of the treasure (is) the Mahāsāmanta Divākaraprabha. Tax collector (is) Dattakāra Pärna. Engraver (is) Kāliyi.
[Here follow two of the customary imprecatory verses.]
(V. 28.) Because after the burning of the plates, these Dowly written letters are of different form (from those of the provious inscription), therefore they are not forged.
No. 14.-THE PLANETARY TABLES.
BY PROFESSOR H. JACOBI, PH.D., BONN.
My Planetary Tables, which are based on the Sirya Siddhanta. without bija, serve to calculate the position of planets for any date between 300 and 2000 A. D. in order to verify the constellation of the planets, or a horoscope, given in an inscription or any other document. For this purpose we must calculate the true Longitude of the planets according to the elements of Hindu Astronomy. Our osloulation yields the Longitude in degrees; from this we find in what sign the planet was, by dividing the Longitude by 30. The quotient gives the number of completed signs; the remainder, the place in the running sign, e.g. 315° 23' Longitude of Jupiter is equal to 10 signs 15° 23', or : Jupiter was in the 11th siga, Kumbha, and had reached 15° 23' in it.
The tables yield the required quantities for dates of the Christian Calendar, in old style from 300--1699, and in new style from 1700—2000. There are five tables.
Tables I-III together yield the mean Longitade of the five planets and the son; tables IV and y furnish the equations which must be joined to the mean Longitude of a planet to convert it into true Longitude 5
Table I gives the mean Longitude of the five planete and the Sun for the beginning of the corresponding year of the twentieth century A.D., s.e. for the year in the twentieth century A.D. which is separated from the given year by one up to sixteen complete centuries; e. g. 1917 is the corresponding year of 317, 417, 517, 617, etc.; 1956, of 356, etc. (The letter L. after 1956 indicates that the year was a leap year.) - Table II gives the increase in Longitude for the centuries intervening between the given year and the corresponding year; e.g. for 1817 A.D. yenge the Index 400 and add the items entered against this Index to those found in table I for 1917, A.D. - Table III gives the increase of Longitude for days the whole Christian year
It is possible that oyavahärin, which also occurs again later on among the list of fanctionaries in connection with the issue of this grant, may be a general term indicative of court-going people.
* Probably the adjudicator who had to inspect and decide if the boundaries were properly marked out or not, and to rottle all cases of dispate.
Perhaps the official who drafted the form in which the royal command, which w ioned by another higher ofhoial, was to take shape. The verses were composed by the court post
Thoso Tables were prepared by me many years ago and have been used occasionally for chronologion purposes. They are arranged on the scheme of M. Largeteau's table of the moon, which will be found convenient to scholars of the West. These tables have been calculated from those in Warren'
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