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The Hindus divided the ecliptic into 27 or 28 lunar mansions or asterisms
(nakshatras), their boundaries being marked by junction stars.
Fig. The constellations (above) and nakshatras (below) along the ecliptic.1
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The Surya-Siddhanta gives the ecliptic latitudes and longitudes (relative to
the starting point of the Hindu zodiac) for 28 asterisms, distributed very
unequally along the ecliptic.2 The 28th is called Revati, and ‘Revati’ is also
the name given to its junction star. The latter’s ecliptic latitude and
longitude are 0° and 359°50' respectively; in other words, it lies on the
ecliptic, 10 minutes of arc west of the Hindu zero point for measuring
longitude. According to virtually all other authorities, however, Revati itself
marks the zero point.3
The Surya-Siddhanta (1:27) says: ‘By their [the planets’] movement, the
revolution is accounted complete at the end of the asterism Revati.’ The

2. Hindus regarded this point – the boundary between Revati and Ashvini – as
the place where the motions of the planets commenced at the ‘creation’
and where their universal conjunction takes place at successive intervals.
In 560 AD the vernal equinox coincided with the ‘junction star’ Revati,
which lay 10' east of Zeta Piscium, a faint star of the fifth magnitude
situated in the band connecting the two Fishes, just below the ecliptic.
However, there is no visible star marking the position of Revati. Most
treatises and authorities appear to equate Revati with Zeta Piscium.4 Aries
would then begin 10' east of Zeta Piscium,5though this point actually lies in
the constellation Pisces. N. Chidambarum Iyer, on the other hand, argued
that the ‘fixed star’ Revati, which he considers the first point of Aries of the
Hindu zodiac, cannot be identified with Zeta Piscium, as Revati lies on the
ecliptic while Zeta Piscium is 10' south of it. He says that Revati is a star
that ‘has somehow disappeared’. He determined that on 1 January 1883
the vernal equinox was 20°24'15" west of Revati.6
J.-S. Bailly wrote that, according to the Brahmans, in 3102 BC the first point
of the Hindu zodiac was 54° behind the equinox, or in the 6th degree of
Aquarius7 (he is referring of course to the sign Aquarius, not to the
constellation of the same name,8 the vernal equinox being defined as the
first point of the sign Aries), and that the first point of their zodiac coincided
with the vernal equinox 20,400 years before the beginning of the kali-yuga.9
Assuming an average rate of precession of 50"/year, 20,400 years prior to
3102 BC the equinox was 2831/3° to the east of its position at the start of
the kali-yuga, when it was 54° to the east of Revati. So for the equinox to
have coincided with Revati, Revati must have a proper motion eastward of
4" per year,10 which is ‘of the same order of magnitude as that of many
stars’.11 It would therefore make one complete circuit of the heavens in
324,000 years.
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