History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.334

v6.c82.334

⁸³⁶ क्रियतवुरिजितुमकुलीरलेयपाथोनजॄककौर्प्याख्याः। तौक्षिक आकोकेरो हद्रोगश्चा-न्त्यभं चेत्थम्॥ बृहज्जातक I 8. The words अन्त्यभं चेत्थम् create a difficulty. Utpala takes them to mean 'and the last sign, in this way'. 'Antyabha' is a pure Sanskrit word and not Greek and there is on this interpretation no Greek word corresponding to Mīna (Pisces). Another commentator Guṇā- (Continued from last page) kara says that the last *rāśi* is called 'cettha' (vide Subrahmanya Sastri's translation of Bṛhajjātaka p 8) The T S S. edition of बृहज्जातक has 'इत्थोगत्थैथांसि क्रमशः' i e. the last *rāśi* is called 'irthasi'. The सुहृद्दर्शन has इत्यादि 'संज्ञाभि क्रियलेयजूकजतुमा. कौर्पिः कुलीरस्तथा इत्थेगित्थसितौक्षिकाश्च कथिताः पाथोनफस्ताहुरु ।। 9 Ptolemy employs a Greek word for Pisces (Loeb Classical Library pp. 52, 314, 328 &c.). to which 'ittha' or 'ikthasi' or 'irthasi' would correspond rather than 'cettha'. The Sārāvalī (III 7) reads संज्ञास्तु जूककौर्पिकतौक्षाकोकेरहृदयरोगास्त्या That shows that it had no Greek word for 'mīna' before it It may be noted that the Sārāvalī expressly says that as Varāha's work is brief it (Sārāvalī) took essential matters from the extensive śāstras composed by Yavananarendra and others I have not been able to find the word *ittha* or a similar Sanskrit adaptation for Mīna in the Bṛhajjātaka Vide Indische Studien vol II pp. 254-261 and JRAS for 1893 p 747 for the Greek and Latin equivalents of the Sanskrit words for the signs of the zodiac, planets &c.