LUNAR STATIONS.

Each of these is called Nakshatra, and they are 27 in number, severally divided into 13 degrees and 20 minutes.

Asterisms. No of stars. Asterisms. No. of stars.
1. Aświní (<Greek> Arietis) 3 15. Swáti (<Greek> Bootis; Ar??us) 1
2. Bharaṇí (Musca) 3 16. Viśákhá (<Greek> or <Greek> Libra) 4
3. Kṛittiká (<Greek> Tauri Pleiades) 6 17. Anurádhá (<Greek> Scorpionis) 4
4. Rohiṇi (<Greek> Tauri Aldabaran) 5 18. Jyeshṭhá (<Greek> Scorpionis, Antares) 3
5. Mṛigaśira (<Greek> Orionis) 3 19. Múla (<Greek> Scorpionis) 11
6. A´rdrá (<Greek> Orionis) 1 20. Púrvásháḍhá (<Greek> Sagittarii) 4
7. Punarvasu (<Greek> Geminorum) 4 21. Uttarásháḍhá (<Greek> Sagittarii) 3
8. Pushya (<Greek> Cancri) 3 22. Abhijit (<Greek> Lyri)  
9. Aślesha (<Greek> 1 and 2 Cancri) 5 23. ´Sravaṇa (<Greek> Aquilæ) 3
10. Maghá (<Greek> Leonis Regulus) 5 24. Dhanishṭhá (<Greek> Delphini) 4
11. Púrvá-phálguní (<Greek> Leonis) 2 25. ´Satabhishá (<Greek> Aquarii)  
12. Uttará-phálguní (<Greek> Leonis) 2 26. Púrvabhadrapadá (<Greek> Pegasi)  
13. Hastá (<Greek> or <Greek> Corvi) 5 27. Uttarabhadrapadá (<Greek> Andromedæ)  
14. Chitrá (<Greek> Virginis, Spica) 1 28. Revatí (<Greek> Piscium)  

Note. I have taken the stars from Bapu Deva's translation of the Súrya-Siddhánta.

Altogether 221 stars. The moon never tarries in any one station more than 65½ ghaṛís or less than 54½.

Three degrees and twenty minutes of the 21st Nakshatra to 48' of the 22° Nakshatra have, for certain purposes, been separately designated Abhijit.*

The Greeks reckoned 28 Lunar Stations and assigned 12 degrees, 51 minutes and 26 seconds to each. They are as follows.*

Names of the Lunar Stations. No. of Stars. Magnitudes.
1. Al Sharaṭán (<Greek> Arietis) 2 3rd.
2. Al Buṭain (<Greek> Arietis) 3 5th.
3. Al Thurayya (Pleiades) 6 5th.
4. Aldabarán (<Greek> Tauri) 1 1st.
5. Al Hakạah (<Greek> Orionis) 3 nebular.*
6. Al Hanạah (<Greek> Geminorum) 2 3rd and 4th.
7. Al Dhiráạ (<Greek> Geminorum) 2 2nd.
8. Al Nathrah (Præsepe (<Greek>) et duo Aselli (<Greek>) Cancri 2 4th.
9. Al Ṭarfah (the eye of Leo; two close together, one belonging to Leo, the other to the stars outside the figure of Cancer) 2 4th.
10. Al Jabhah (<Greek> Leonis) 4 one of the 4th.
11. Al Zubrah (<Greek> Leonis) 2 2nd.
12. Al Ṣarfah (<Greek> Leonis) 1 1st.
13. Al Awwá (<Greek> Virginis) 5 3rd.
14. Al Simák (ul Aạza)* (Spica) 1 1st.
15. Al Ghafr* (<Greek>, Virginis) 3 4th.
16. Al Zubáná (<Greek> Libræ) 2 2nd.
17. Al Iklíl (<Greek> Scorpii) 3 4th.
18. Al Ḳalb (<Greek> Scorpii) 1 2nd.
19. Al Shaulah (<Greek> Scorpii) 2 2nd.
20. Al Nạáím (<Greek> Sagittarii) 4 3rd.
21. Al Baldah, a blank circular space of the heavens* . .
22. Saạd Al Dhábiḥ (<Greek> Capricorni) 2 3rd.
23. Saạd-Bulaạ (<Greek> Aquarii) 2 3rd and 4th.
24. (Saạd) Al Suúd (<Greek> Aquarii) 2 or 3 3rd and 5th.
25. (Saạd) Al Akhbíyah (<Greek> Aquarii) 4 3rd.
26. Muḳaddam (Alfargh al Awwal (<Greek> Pegasi) 2 2nd.
27. Muakkhar (Alfaragh Altháni) (<Greek> Pegasi, and <Greek> Andromedæ) 2 2nd.
28. Rashá (Baṭn Alhúṭ) (<Greek> Andromedæ) 1 3rd.

In all 66 or 67 stars.

In the following table will be found various particulars regarding the Planets.

[The form is given but the particulars are wanting in all the MSS. The entries were probably left to be made at a later time, and either for­gotten or the information was never obtained. The details were the diameters and dimensions of the planets and their distances from the earth's centre in farsakhs and yojanas according to the Hindus, to Ptolemy and to modern astronomers, but as Albirúni observes, the Hindu astrono­mers themselves are not agreed in their computations. Pulisa reckons the diameter of the earth as 1,600 yojanas, and its circumference as 502614/15, whilst Brahmagupta reckons the former at 1,581 and the latter at 5,000 yojanas. The table of Yạḳúb-b-Ṭáriḳ, will be found in Albirúni's India, Vol. II, p. 68.]