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Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Hindu Astronomy

1924

371) ; and he notes the correspondence between the Hindu and Greek signs of the zodiac the dreshkanas of the Hindus and the dekanoi of the Greeks and suggests that the term Yavaruichiirya refers to a Greek author. [...] 9. There is a very marked differentiation between the works of the type of the Jyotish Vedanga on the one hand and those of the type of the Surya Siddheinta on the other and this differentiation is not merely one of time—it is so fundamental that continuity of development appears to be altogether out of the question. [...] Apatamba says' " The Veda has six angas the kalpa of the Veda the treatises on grammar astronomy (jyotisha)2; etymology phonetics and metrics " and these are known as the Vedangas or ' limbs of the Vedas.' In the Jaina Sittras3 astronomy is said to be one of the principal accomplishments of the prictAt. [...] The point of departure in the study of almost any section of knoledge in which India is deeply concerned is the Rig Veda ; and in this Indict is indeed fortunate for of all the literature of early civilisation the Rig Vedte is perhaps the most fascinating to the philosophic enquirer and in particular the Vedic hymns that are devoted to celestial phenomena are amongst the most beautiful. [...] Jacobi thinks that the ' Frog hymn ' indicates that the year commenced with the summer solstice° and that another hymn marks the beginning of the year with the sun in the asterism Phalguni7 and the summer solstice occurred in the constellation usually identified with Phalguni about 4000 B. C. In another passages Tilak sees a reference to the heliacal rising of Sirius at the vernal equinox and K
anthropology archaeology
Pages
140
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100116
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-ii G.R. Kaye view
Chapter I. Introduction
1-6 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter II. Periods
7-9 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter III. Early texts
10-16 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter IV. Early formal astronomy
17-21 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter V. Special topics
22-38 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter VI. The introduction of Greek astronomy
39-41 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter VII. The astronomers of the second period
42-49 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter VIII. The astronomy of the second period
50-70 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter IX. Mathematical astronomy
71-94 G.R. Kaye view
Chapter X. Conclusion
95-96 G.R. Kaye view
Appendices
97-124 G.R. Kaye view
Bibliography
125-127 G.R. Kaye view
Abbreviations Employed
128-128 G.R. Kaye view
Additional Notes
129-130 G.R. Kaye view
Index
131-134 G.R. Kaye view
Backmatter
i-i G.R. Kaye view

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