The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c12.35

c12.35

The Vedâṅga Jyotiṣa introduces the third change, when the seasons had further fallen back, not by a month, but by a fortnight. It was probably during this interval that the beginning of the month was altered from the full-moon to the new-moon, and when this beginning of the month was so altered, advantage was taken of the receding of the seasons by a fortnight, to commence the year with the new-moon in Dhaniṣṭhâ as the Vedâṅga Jyotiṣa has done.