The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c12.12

c12.12

Let us, therefore, see if we have evidence in the Vedic literature in support of such an interpretation. It may be observed that we are here entering upon the remotest period of antiquity, when the year was probably first determined with some approach to accuracy; and even in the Vedas there is hardly anything beyond vague traditions about this period, while the Greeks and the Parsis have not, it appears, preserved even these.