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¹⁷⁰ Naxatra, 1, 316 et seq.; Indische Studien, 10, 246, and elsewhere. Weber, Nakṣatra, 2, 362, 400, laid great stress on the fact that the Jyotiṣa, 8, referred to the difference of the longest and shortest day as being six muhūrtas, which makes the longest day fourteen hours twenty-four minutes; and he compared the Babylonian day of fourteen hours twenty-five minutes, and a Chinese day of fourteen hours twenty-four minutes. But Whitney, Oriental and Linguistic Essays, 2, 417, 418, shows that no stress can be laid on this argument, since the correspondence is only approximate, and the latitudes of the Babylonian and Chinese observations are approximately the same.