The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c7.14

c7.14

Bhattotpala on Brihat. San. iii. 1, quotes Garga as follows:— श्रविष्ठात्पौष्णार्धं चरतः शिशिरः । solstice and that this auspicious event took place in the first half of the month of Mâgha.* It is evident from this that the winter solstice must have coincided in those days with the beginning of Dhaniṣṭhâ as described in the Vedâṅga Jyotiṣa and other works.