History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.335.1

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It should be noted that the list of synonyms is not exhaustive; other words with the same meaning are often employed. For example, for Siṁha, Mṛgarāja may be used or for Mīna the word *pṛthuroman* may be used. The words in italics are deemed by Weber and many others as borrowings from or Sanskrit adaptations of Greek words It may be admitted that most of them bear a striking resemblance to Greek names of rāśis Pāthona should be Pāthena to correspond with the Greek word. There is no reason why kulīra should be regarded as a Greek word Kern (preface to Bṛ S. p. 29) thinks that it is a pure Sanskrit word There is no Greek word corresponding to Kulīra in Ptolemy. The word Karka or Karkin appears to mean 'white' and occurs as early as in Atharvaveda IV 38. 6-7 All that the Bṛhaj-jātaka (I 8) means is that there are other words like *kriya* used for the twelve rāśis in other works Varāhamihira frequently refers to the views of the Yavanas and sometimes differs from them. It has been shown by me in my paper on 'Yavaneśvara and Utpala' (in J of Bombay Asiatic Society, vol. 30, pp. 1-8) that there is a Sanskrit work on astrology called *Yavana-jātaka* of about 4000 verses composed by a king of the Yavanas called Sphujidhvaja and another *Vṛddhayavanajātaka* also in several thousand verses by Mīnarāja who styles himself the overlord of Yavanas I cannot agree with Prof Sen-Gupta ('Ancient Indian Chronology' p 99) that words like Meṣa and Vṛṣabha in verses like Ṛg I. 51.