The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c7.6

c7.6

It is now well-known that Varahamihira, in whose time the vernal equinox coincided with the end of Revati and the summer solstice was in Punarvasu, distinctly refers in two places to the older position of the solstices recorded by writers who preceded him. "When the return of the sun took place from the middle of Âshleshâ," says he in his Pancha Siddhântikâ, "the tropic was then right. It now takes place from Punarvasu."* And, again, in the Brihat Sanhitâ iii., 1 and 2, he mentions the same older position of both the solstitial points and appeals to his readers to ascertain for themselves by actual observation which of the two positions of the solstices is the correct one, whether the older position of the