History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.339

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⁸³⁹ Vide Campbell Thompson's Intro. to 'Reports of the Magicians &c.' for a table of late Babylonian, Assyrian and modern English names of signs (pp XXIII-XXIV) and Expository Times, vol. 30 (for 1918) pp. 164-168 on 'Assyro-Babylonian astrologers and their lore' by T. G Pinches. On p.167 the latter says that Europe is indebted to the Babylonians for the names of the signs of the Zodiac except Crab and Archer and sets out the Babylonian names with their meanings and modern names (Ram &c.). These two tables do not agree. Babylonians called Capricorn goat-fish. Bouché—Leclercq (on p. 57 note 1) gives a list of the twelve Chaldean zodiacal signs, which differs from both the above.