Saturday, December 15, 2007

Lagadha

Lagadha (around 1300 BC) is the author of Vedanga Jyotisha, the text on Vedic astronomy that has been dated to 1350 BC. This text describes rules for tracking the motions of the sun and the moon. Lagadha praises astronomy as the crowning subject in the ancillary Vedic sciences.

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