36 VEDAKGA SOTA, Datha sikha mayirandm nijgandm monayo vathaf tadvad vedaigasastranam jyotigam miirdhani sthitam||ReVI 35; YoVS & Like the combs of the peacocks and the crest-jewels of the serpents, so docs the lore of Jyoriga stand at the head of all the lores forming the auxiliaries of the Vedas. (RVI 35; Y-VJ 4) Note 1. Ganita, « variant reading for jyorisa means ‘computation’ which is the essence of this science, Note 2, The importance of every kind of lore is stressed by being praised in the manner done here by the writers on that lore. 3, Benepicnion Text 3 somasiryastrearitam: vidvin vedavid afrute} ssomastryastrearitam lokam loke ea santatin|{R-VI 30; Y-VI 43 ‘One tearned in the Vedas who has also learnt this lore of the movement of the Moon, the Sun and the stars will enjoy, after death, sojourn in the world wherein the Moon, the Sun and the stars have their being, besides having, in this world, am unending line of progeny. (RVI 30; ¥-V7 43) Noie 1. Different deities or groups of deities have their own worlds, where their devotees go and enjoy happiness after death, 4. Vatepicrion Text 4 ity evam masavarsand mubirtodayaparvandin dinarivayanamasingam( Yndm} vydkhyinam Lagadho ‘bravitif (OF-V7, unnumbered verse after 43) ‘Thus did the sage Lagadha speak in detail of the (synadic) months, the year, the muhirras, the risings, the syzygies, the days, the (six) seasons and the courses of the Sun with tho (solar) months. (Y-VJ, unnumbered verse after 43) Note }. In Weber's first and critical edition, this verse appears unnumbered before the last verse 43 of the Y-V¥J. It is mot found in the R-VJ. The verse enumerates all items computed in the work, with the name of the source, viz. the Work of Lagadba. Perhaps, it is @ later addition, to supply this need. Shama Sastry, in his highly un- critical edition of ¥J, numbers this qs 43, and the last verse as 44,