The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c12.4

c12.4

We have so far considered only one of the traditional year beginnings recorded in the Taittirîya Sanhitâ, the Phalguni full-moon But it may be asked how we interpret the other mentioned along with it, and almost in the same words. Analogy at once suggests that we should interpret it in the same way as we have interpreted the first. With the Phalguni full-moon, at the winter solstice the vernal equinox was in Mrigashiras; so with the Chitrâ full-moon at the solstice the vernal equinox would be in Punarvasû.