* Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400076; Email: aditya.kolachana@gmail.com. **University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In her correspondence entitled “On an Alternative Interpretation for the Application of Cara”, published in IJHS, 54.1 (2019), 104–107, Dr. Shylaja suggests some changes in our paper “Determination of Ascensional Difference in the Lagnaprakaraa”, published in IJHS, 53.3 (2018), 302-316. At the outset, we would like to thank Dr. Shylaja for studying our paper carefully and suggesting changes. Dr. Shylaja essentially makes two remarks regarding our paper: 1. She notes that the given formulae for the ascensional difference are applicable to all celestial bodies lying on the diurnal circle of the Sun, and not just the Sun alone, and recommends to replace ‘Sun’ with ‘any celestial body’ in the paper: The paper assumes that the cara calculation is applicable for the sun only. Therefore one has to replace the word sun as ‘any celestial body’ all through the paper. In this context she also recommends changing the caption of Fig. 6: Therefore, the figure caption needs to be rewritten... 2. She also suggests an alternative interpretation for verse 24 of the Lagnaprakaraa: I would therefore offer a translation as follows... Below, we respond to these remarks.

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通讯：关于卡拉的替代解释：回应

*印度孟买Powai孟买理工学院梵文印度科学与技术研究室– 400076；电子邮件：aditya.kolachana@gmail.com。**新西兰坎特伯雷大学。Shylaja博士在IJHS，54.1（2019），104-107中发表的题为“关于使用卡拉的替代解释”的通信中，建议对我们的论文《确定拉格纳普拉卡拉升差异的确定》进行一些修改，发表于IJHS，53.3（2018），302-316。首先，我们要感谢Shylaja博士仔细研究了我们的论文并提出了建议。Shylaja博士实质上对我们的论文发表了两点评论：1.她指出，给定的提升差异公式适用于位于太阳日圆上的所有天体，而不仅限于太阳，并建议在论文中将“太阳”替换为“任何天体”：本文假设卡拉计算仅适用于太阳。因此，必须在整个论文中将“太阳”一词替换为“任何天体”。在这种情况下，她还建议更改图6的标题：因此，该图的标题需要重写... 2.她还建议对Lagnaprakaraa的第24节进行另一种解释：因此，我将提供以下翻译：如下...下面，我们对这些评论做出回应。。2.她还建议对Lagnaprakaraa的第24节提出另一种解释：因此，我将提供如下翻译...在下面，我们回应这些评论。。2.她还建议对Lagnaprakaraa的第24节提出另一种解释：因此，我将提供如下翻译...在下面，我们回应这些评论。