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258 PAÑCASIDDHĀNTIKĀ XIII.37 स्वप्रत्ययेन सन्तो विज्ञायैवं वदन्ति भूमध्यम् । सकलमहिमानं वा रसमिव लवणाम्भसाऽल्पेन ॥ ३४ ॥ 34. Learned men, observing things for themselves thus, determine the North pole, the dimensions of the whole earth, etc. as one would determine the salty taste of the whole quantity of the solution by tasting a small quantity of it. Note. What is meant here is that observation made at a small place on the earth can give us know- ledge of the whole earth, by suitable reasoning. [चन्द्रशौक्ल्यम्] नित्यमधःस्थस्येन्दो (र्भाभि) र्भानोः सितं भवत्यर्धम् । स्वच्छाययाऽन्यदसितं कुम्भस्येवातपस्थस्य ॥३५ ॥ सलिलमये शशिनि रवेर्दी(धित)यो मूर्च्छितास्तमो नैशम् । क्षपयति दर्पणोदरनिहिता इव मन्दिरस्यान्तः ॥ ३६ ॥ प्रतिदिवसमेवमर्वाक् स्थानविशेषेण शौक्ल्यपरिवृ(द्धिः) । भवति शशिनोपरा(ह्ने) पश्चाद्भागे घटस्येव ॥ ३७ ॥ Moon’s luminosity 35. The Sun lights up one half of the Moon situated below it always, (at any position round the earth), and the other half is dark by its own shadow, (i.e. the Moon obstructing the sun-light by its own body) just like a pot placed in sun-light. Note. This is because the Moon gets its light from the Sun, and is not self-luminous. 36. The Sun’s rays, reflected in the watery Moon dispels the darkness on the earth, just as the rays of the sun falling on a mirror in the interior of a house, does. Note. It is the belief of the ancients that the Sun is fiery, the Moon watery and the earth mainly earthy. 37. According to the position of the Moon underneath the Sun, every day, the lighted up part increases (from the time of new moon, as seen from the earth), as the lighted portion increases on the pot, on the western side, in the afternoon. Note. Instead of the expression, after-noon a better one would be, ‘as the day-time elapses, beginning from sunrise.’ 34c. B1.3. सकलं d. A.B.D. रसमि—लवणाम्भसोऽल्पेन; (B. रसमितं; D. रसमिव)