CHAPTER LXXVIII.                           201

following twelve hours as belonging to Mercury, and
so on according to the order of the planets. Whenever
the order returns to the sun, they call his twelve
hours the hours of Albist, i.e. vishti.

However, the Hindus do not measure the ka,rctncts
by civil, but by lunar days, nor do they begin with those
burning hours following upon new moon. Accord¬
ing to the calculation of Alkindi, people begin, after
new moon, with Jupiter ; in that case the periods of
the sun are not burning. On the other hand, if they
begin, according to the method of the Hindus, after
new moon with the sun, the hours of vishti belong
to Mercury. Therefore, each method, that of the
Hindus and that of Alkindi, must be treated sepa¬
rately.

Because vishti recurs eight times in a month, and
because the points of the compass are eight, we shall
exhibit in the eight fields of the following table their
acrrpoXoyoviJ.eva regarding the kctrctncts, observations the
like of which are made by all astrologers regarding
the shapes of the planets and regarding those stars
which rise in the single third parts of the zodiacal
sio-ns.
 


 

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vishtis.
 

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in which the

rise.
 

Description of the Single

"ViSHTIS."
 

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sugar-cane.    In one hand it
 

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has  an   iron  hook,   in  the
 

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other a black serpent.    It is
 

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for war, and those actions
 

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in which there is deception
 


 


 

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and falsification.