Antiquity of the vedic calendar

dc.contributor.author	Abhyankar, K. D
dc.date.accessioned	2008-08-06T10:08:06Z
dc.date.available	2008-08-06T10:08:06Z
dc.date.issued	1998-03
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 61 - 66	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3051
dc.description.abstract	Taking guidance from Vedanga jyotis, it is found that in ancient India the sacrificial year started near the winter solstice. As the position of the winter solstice retrogrades by 1 degree in about 71 years due to the phenomenon of precession, references to the solar and lunar positions at the beginning of the year in the vedic literature allow one to trace the antiquity of the various Vedic epochs backwards upto about 7000 BC.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of India	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998BASI...26...61A	en
dc.subject	Vedic Calendar	en
dc.subject	Shift of winter solstice	en
dc.title	Antiquity of the vedic calendar	en
dc.type	Article	en