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44 SAMAGRA TILAK -- 2 a VEDANGA JYOTI~HA
using all these artifices and emendations is both incomplete and
superfluous. Incomplete because it admittedly involves an error
of about 16 kahis if B's, and 31 ~ daily amshas if S's interpretation
be accepted. Superfluous because in another place ( R. 18; Y. 39)
the Vedanga tells u that the Sun takes exactly 13~ day to traverse
a ak~J hatra and when we thus have the exact rule, there is no
necessity of giving the same rule in an incomplete form. Both B
and S have tried to answer thi question in their own way. But
the reason adduced are so lame, that one is led to think, there-
from, that both B and S have put forward the e interpretations,
because nothing better sugge ted it elf to them. B has e en a
lurking suspicion that his interpretation may be open to improve-
ment. But if we follow the cue suggested by the order of these
verses in the Rik. recension, and interpret the pre ent verse as con-
taining the second part of the rule for finding the Moon's kalds
in continuation of the first part contained in the line ~rif ~:
etc,. above di ccussed, we meet with no such difficulties.
Taking ~ to mean ' one and one third ' and making it
qualify both ~ and ~lll, I would therefore, tran late the
1irst half of the verse thus : - 'Four-thirds (lit. one and
one third ) of ~. and of the Rqt~i~l+ill'f, ( will be equal to
the kalds at the end) of the 14th ( paksha ), the fraction ( fWA")
being kept aside ( that i , neglected ). ' What i meant by ~~f i
already explained. The meaning of Rei"~, as well as the
reason of the whole rule will be seen from the following
explanation.
We have shown above that at the end of a given number of
una-paksha, the Moon will have traver ed ( 1 ) complete
ak!fhatra equal to 14 times the number of pakshas plus ( 2 )
Nak~Jhatras equal to the integral part of half the number of t1na-
pak has and ( 3) under certain condition there is a chance of
having one or rarely two more additional ak~hatras. The fir t
half of the pre ent verse deals with the fir t two case and the
second half with the third of them. The Moon. according to the
Vedlinga ( R. 18; Y. 39) takes one day plus 7 kalas, to do a
Nak ~hatra; and at this rate, 14 days plus 14 x 7 ""98 kalas are
required to traver e 14 complete ak~hatras. But ince we have
here to find the expired time on the last day only we omit the
completed days from the above re ult and take into account only
he fractional 98 kalds or the fractional parts of a day in tha t