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50 SAMAGRA TILAK - 2 • THE ORION
of the equinoxes, and must, in consequence, reject Saya~a's expla-
nation as unsatisfactory.
The only other authority I can find for supposing that Phal-
guna was a Vasanta month is the statement in Shushruta's medical
work, that "Phalguna and Chaitra make Vasanta. " But on a
closer examination of the passage wherein this sentence occurs,
it will'"'be found to bear on its face the marks of later insertion.
There are two consecutive paragraphs in Shushruta, each enu-
merating and describing the seasons of the year. The first state~.
that "There the twelve months, ~eginning with Magha, make
six seasons, comprising two months each. They are Shishita, etc.
Of these Tapa and Tapasya make Shishira " and so oh until all
the six seasons in their usual order, the ayan~. the yea.r and the
lustrum are described; and at the end we have " this is called the
wheel of time by some. "• The second paragraph then begins
with the words " But here " and continues to state " the six seasons
are,--Vanha, Sharad, Hemanta, Vasanta, Gri~hma and Pravtith"
thus altogether dropping Shishira and dividing the rainy period
into two seasons Varsha and Pravri!Jh. The paragraph then pro-
ceeds to assign the months to the seasons as follows :- " Bha-
drapada and Ashvina is Vari!M,' Kartika and Margashir~ha is
Sharad, Paul!ha and Magha is Hemanta, and Pbalguna and
Chaitra is Vasanta. " and so on until all the months are assigned
to their respective seasons. The second paragraph, however, makes
no mention of the ayanas, the year, or the lustrum. It is therefore
evident that the writer of the second paragraph, whosoever he may
be, wished to note that the seasons and their corresponding months
mentioned in the first paragraph had ceased to represent the actual
state of things in the writer's time and province and not thinking
it desirable or possible to expunge or correct the old paragraph,

• See Shushruta, Sutrasth4na Arihyiya 6,. The two consecutive
paragraphs here referred to 11re :-
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