The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c19.s1.6

c19.s1.6

A table (A 1·2) of differences is added. These are mostly small and do not amount to two per cent. of the whole, and many are obviously copying mistakes.¹ There are indications that the MS. was copied from another Devanāgarī MS., which, in its turn, was copied from one in Persian script. There are numerous examples of what appear to be the result of confusion between the *abjad* symbols (see page 133) for 3 and 8, 4 and 7, tens and thirties, tens and fifties, which confusion is caused by the omission of the dots in the MSS. There are also apparent examples of confusion between the Devanāgarī symbols for one and two. Numbers 360 and 361 appear to have been interchanged; in 683 Jai Singh's latitude is right, for Baily's value is an emendation. Number 1008 in Baily is omitted (see Baily's note) and the numbers 1009-1019 in Baily correspond to Jai Singh's numbers 1008-1018.