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The Vedanga Jyotisha describes the winter solstice for the period of ca. 1400 BCE. This description has been used to date the Vedanga Jyotisha . [ 2 ] According to Michael Witzel , the question is "whether the description as given in the Jyotisha is also the date of the text in which it is transmitted.
The field of Jyotisha deals with ascertaining time, particularly forecasting auspicious days and times for Vedic rituals. [9] The field of Vedanga structured time into Yuga, which was a 5-year interval, [40] divided into multiple lunisolar intervals such as 60 solar months, 61 savana months, 62 synodic months and 67 sidereal months. [41]
The Vedanga (Sanskrit: वेदाङ्ग vedāṅga, "limb of the Veda-s"; [1] plural form: वेदाङ्गानि vedāṅgāni) are six auxiliary disciplines of Hinduism that developed in ancient times and have been connected with the study of the Vedas: [2]
A list of them is first found in the Vedanga Jyotisha, a text dated to the final centuries BCE [citation needed]. The Nakṣatra system predates the influence of Hellenistic astronomy on Vedic tradition, which became prevalent from about the 2nd century CE.
A jyotiḥśāstra (treatise on jyotisha) is a text from a classical body of literature on the topic of Hindu astrology, known as Jyotiṣa, dating to the medieval period of Classical Sanskrit literature (roughly the 3rd to 9th centuries CE). Only the most important ones exist in scholarly editions or translations, while many remain unedited in ...
However, some Indian authors claim the earliest known Sanskrit work on horoscopy is Vedanga Jyotisha [5] [6] It was translated by David Pingree into English, which was published as volume 48 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1978. [7] [8]
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