The History of Indian Literature c9.232

c9.232

²⁷⁷ Such a direct connection of the Puliśa-Siddhanta with the Εἰσαγωγή is attended with difficulty, from the fact that the quotations from Pulíśa do not accord with it, being rather of an astronomical than an astrological description. That the Εἰσαγωγή, however, was itself known to the Hindús, in some form or other, finds support in the circumstance that it alone contains nearly the whole of the technical terms adopted by Indian astronomy from the Greek; see Kern's Preface to his edition of Varáha - Mihira's Bṛihat-Saṃh., p. 49.—Considerable interest attaches to the argument put forward by H. Jacobi in his tract, *De Astrologiæ Indicæ Horâ Appellatæ Originibus* (Bonn, 1872), to the effect that the system of the twelve mansions occurs first in Firmicus Maternus (a.d. 336–354), and that consequently the Indian Horá-texts, in which these are of such fundamental significance, can only have been composed at a still later date.