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42 SAMAGRA TILAK- 2 • VEDANGA JYOTI~HA
amshas, when added to haJf the Nak~hatra in column (a) may
increase the number of the complete Nak!lhatras. For example,
take the 7th paksha. Here half of 7 is 3 and this is the figure
entered in column 3 ( a) opposite to the 7th paksha. But the
number of amshas given in column 3 (b) is 77, or half a
Nak~hatra plus 15 amshas. Therefore this half when adde,d to
the half in 3, will make one complete Nak!lhatra; and the total
complete Nak!lhtras arising out of the 01~ in this case are,
therefore, not 3 but 4. Similary in the case of the 9th and the 11th
paksha the number of additional Nak!lhatras arising out of the
01~ is 5 and 6 respectively and not 4 and 5. So far as the ['tna
pakshas alone are concerned these exptional Nak!lhatras arise
out of the 01~ in the case of the 7th, the 9th and II th una
paksha only. But as observed in the remark column, we have to
add to the amshas in column 3 (a) the amshas at the end of the
previous dozen pakshas; and then the said exceptional cases
may occur oftener. For example take the 17th paksha. Here we
have one dozen plus five <Jlif pakshas, and though the amshas
for five una pakshas are 55 only, yet when 8 amshas of the
previous dozen are added to it we have 63 amshas, or half a
Nak~hatra, and one amsha. This half of a Nak!lhatra when added
to 2 Nak!lhatras in column 3 (a), makes three complete Nak!lhtras
in all. Therefore although the complete Nak!lhatras arising out of
the 01~ for five pakshas is 2 ( one half in 2-k being omitted )
yet for 17 pakshas the number of completed Nak~hatras is 3 and
not 2. Briefly stated, we may say that ( 1 ) the number of complete
Nak~hatras, arising out of the 01~ is generally equal to the
integral part of half the number of una pakshas. But ( 2) an increase
in the number of complete Nak~hatra may take place when the
number of amshas for the una-paksha ( at the rate of 11 per
paksha) either by themselves, or together with the amshas of the
previous dozens ( at the rate of 8 per dozen) exceed 62. This
increase is generally never greater than one Nak!lhatra but in rare
cases, e. g. in the 119th paksha, it may be equal to 2 Nak~hatras.
We can now see why the Vedanga has given a separate rule for
calculating the moon's <~~. The figures given in column 3 ( a)
and 3 ( b ) are practically the same as would be obtained by the
application of the general rule for counting the lltw's of the
Moon at the end of a given paksha, laid down in the verse
m~: ~:'1: etc. ( R. 10; Y. 15) discussed in the beginning of this