ABSTRACT

Garga, the ancient, the primeval one, that the Great Bear stood in Magha, the tenth lunar station, when Yudhishthira ruled the earth, and the Sakakala was 2526 years after this. The Great Bear remains in each lunar station 600 years, and it rises in the north-east. He (of the Seven ~ishis) who then rules the east is Marici ; west of him is Vasishtha, then Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, and near Vasiehtha there is a chaste woman called Arundhatl."