The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c7.65

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∗ This is Bentley's date about which see *infra*. † See Pref. to Rig., vol IV., p. xxix. ‡ M. Biot allows it in the case of the Chinese and consider that the Hindus borrowed the Nakshatra system from them Albiruni, in his chronology of ancient nations, &c., observes that other nations begin their asterisms with the Pleiades. He further states that he has found in some books of Hermes that the vernal equinox coincides with the rising of the Pleiades, but, says he "God knows best what they intend !"