Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

) P17.raini7igla montIrs':-- In Meghadata " of Kalidasa we read that the hero got the first glimpse of the approaching rainy season on the last day of the AsAdha month that then the folloing Sravana month was quite near to it and that since the day he saw the clouds he had to spend four more months in exile its termination being the filth day in the bright fortnight of the month KArttika [...] The first year of the cycle ( Yoga) begins when the sun enters the 47th space of constellation Pusya and when the moon enters the first space of constellation Abhijit early morning at a particular moment ( morning of the.iNt day of the dark fortnight of the month Srfivana ). The position of the moon (duing the cycle ) keeps changing thereafter at every equinoctial and solstice point while that [...] ( Vide table II ). ( 36) In the unequal spaces of constellations and in the order of enumeration we strictly follow the Jain texts as also in the data with respect to the ecliptic to the fractional length of solar days lunar digits lunations sidereal year the cycle ( Yuga ) and with respect to the measure of course of sun and moon amongst the 28 constellations. [...] (44) It will be evident that the twins gods Mvins the regents of the constellation A.§vini at the equinoctial point are thought of by the Vedic poets in connection with the termination of the divine night and also in connection with the commencement of the diine day. [...] Both the period of time of their outgoing and incoming particularly the latter is considered very auspicious time of " the time of Dawn and Dusk when clouds of dust rise out of the movement of the cows."120 Annals of the Bhandarkar Ortental Research Institute together with the Aivins.