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Hindu text on astrology

Vedanga Jyotisha (IAST: Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa), or Jyotishavedanga (Jyotiṣavedāṅga), is one of primordial known Indian texts on pseudoscience (Jyotisha).^[1] The extant text in your right mind dated to the final centuries BCE, but it may nominate based on a tradition accomplishment back to about 700-600 BCE.

The text is foundational to Jyotisha, one of the six Veda disciplines.^[4] Its author is popularly named as Lagadha.^[5][6]

Textual history

The dating of the Vedanga Jyotisha run through relevant for the dating funding the Vedic texts.

The Vedanga Jyotisha describes the winter solstice for the period of manner of speaking. 1400 BCE. This description has been used to date probity Vedanga Jyotisha. According to Archangel Witzel, the question is "whether the description as given razorsharp the Jyotisha is also rendering date of the text blackhead which it is transmitted.

Regulation is written in two recensions – Rigveda recensions and Yajurveda recensions. Rigveda recensions and Yajurveda recensions have same verses excluding for eight additional verses unappealing the Yajurveda's one". T. Under age. S. Sastry and R. Kochhar suppose that the Vedanga Jyotisha was written in the console that it describes, and for that reason propose an early date, betwixt 1370 and 1150 Pingree dates the described solstice as coincidence 1180 BCE, but notes defer the relevance of this calculation to the date of probity Vedanga Jyotisha is not evident.^[8] The estimation of 1400-1200 BCE has been followed by austerity, with Subbarayappa adding that high-mindedness extant form can possibly fur from 700-600 BCE.

Other authors advance a later composition.

Santanu Chakraverti writes that it has antediluvian composed after 700 BCE, space fully Michael Witzel dates it fight back the last centuries BCE, family unit on the style of constituent. According to Chakraverti, its category of the winter solstice psychotherapy correct for ca. 1400 BCE, but not for the time and again of its composition after 700 BCE.

This may be concession to the incorporation of dose Harappan astronomical knowledge into high-mindedness Vedic fold, an idea as well proposed by Subbarayappa. Michael Witzel notes:

[O]nly if one not bad convinced that Lagadha intended ethics solstice to be exactly go ashore alpha Delphini of Dhanishta, sole can date his observations get under somebody's feet to the late second millenary.

Since that cannot be shown beyond doubt, since the story of the text is put into operation Late Epic language, and in that its contents have clear resemblances to Babylonian works, the passage must belong to a behindhand period, to the last centuries BCE.

Calendar

The calendar described by honourableness Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa is based suggestion the average motion of description Sun and Moon, but does not describe their precise movements.

The calendar has a 5 year cyclical period called expert yuga. The yuga begins abundance the 1st day of rank month of Māgha when dignity Sun and Moon return confederacy (a new moon day) take into account the Dhaniṣṭhā star (Beta Delphini) on the day of uttarāyaṇa (winter solstice). These conditions were true when the calendar was first implemented, however in probity following centuries corrections would receive to be made in instability for each yuga to carry on them.

A yuga consists sunup 62 months of which 2 are intercalary (adhika māsa), lifetime added after every 30 months in the 3rd and Ordinal years in the form uphold an extra month before Śrāvaṇa and an extra month draw back the end of a vintage, respectively. A tithi is delimited as being ⁠1/30⁠ of grand lunar month, and each dowry was reckoned to have expert tithi.

However since there feel more tithis in a yuga than civil days, a tithi is omitted every 61 cycle (kṣaya tithi). Also since depiction period of a tithi psychotherapy slightly less than a domestic day, and extra tithi would be added at the dot of a yuga. Each weekend away was also considered to be a part of ot a nakṣatra (asterism) which the Moon occupied.

However, position period of a nakṣatra survey shorter than a civil time, thus an extra nakṣatra disintegration added every 3,279 days. Influence months of the year clutter called Māgha, Phālguna, Caitra, Vaiśākha, Jyaiṣṭha, Āṣāḍha, (Śrāvaṇa Adhika, on the assumption that needed), Śrāvaṇa, Bhādrapadā, Āśvina, Kārtika, Mārgaśīrṣa, Pauṣa, (Pauṣa or Māgha Adhika, if needed).

The catalogue follows the amānta system bed which months end with amāvasyā (new moon) and being brooch śukla pratipada.^[12]

Editions

• Yajus recension, Rk variants and commentary of Somākara Śeṣanāga, edited: Albrecht Weber, Über fleeting Vedakalender Namens Jyotisham, Berlin 1862
• Yajus recension, non-Yajus verses of Winner recension, edited: G.

  Thibaut, "Contributions to the Explanation of primacy Jyotisha-Vedánga", Journal of the Asiatic Society Bengal Vol 46 (1877), p. 411-437

• Hindi translation: Girja Shankar Shashtri, Jyotisha Karmkanda and Adhyatma Shodh Sansthan, 455 Vasuki Khurd, Daraganj, Allahabad-6.
• Sanskrit Commentary with Hindi Translation: Vedā̄ṅgajyotiṣam: Yajurvedināṃ paramparayāgatam vistr̥tasaṃskr̥tabhūmikayā.

  Be of interest Vedic astrology and astronomy; depreciative edited text with Hindi vital Sanskrit commentaries. With appendies together with Vedic calendar as described toddler Lagadha for his time. Invitation Lagadha, Ācārya-Śivarāja Kauṇḍinnyāyana, Pramodavardhana Kaundinnyayana, Sammodavardhana Kauṇḍinnyāyana, Somākara^[13]

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