| Kālidāsa - 1856 - 306 pàgines
...flowers, to which constant allusion is made in Sanskrit plays. 63 Pines to Ite united with the moon. A complete revolution of the moon, with respect to the stars, being made in twenty-seven days, odd hours, the Hindfis divide the heavens into twenty-seven constellations (asterisms) or lunar stations,... | |
| Kālidāsa, Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1876 - 396 pàgines
...need we wonder at S'akuntala's desire to be united with a prince of the Lunar race ? Sasdn-ka-lekha, is properly ' a digit of the moon,' or the moon in...to the stars, being made in twenty-seven days, odd hours, the Hindus divide the heavens into twenty-seven constellations [asterisms] or lunar stations,... | |
| Michael J. Franklin - 2000 - 544 pàgines
...quarter of the asterism immediately preceding, or the later AsTiar, as the word is commonly pronounced. A complete revolution of the moon, with respect to the stars, being made in twenty-seven days, odd hours, minutes, and seconds, and perfect exactness being either not attained by the Asw'ini. Magha.... | |
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