Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c5.52

c5.52

that occurs between him and SANKARA, it appears that he entertains the doctrine regarding the descent of earth in space, which is attributed by the old astronomers to the Bauddhas, and controverted by the author of the Surya Siddhánta,* and subsequently by BHA'SKARA : the former is quoted by SANKARA, according to our author. These doctrines, the commentators on BHA'SKARA'S work, and even he, himself, commenting on his own text, say, belong to the Jainas, not to the Bauddhas ; but, possibly, the correction is itself an error, it does not appear that the Kshapanaka of ANANDA GIRI argues the existence of a double set of planetary bodies, which is, undoubtedly, a Jaina doctrine,† and the descent of the earth in space may have been common to all these sects.