The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c8.47

c8.47

538 A, D.; if so, why should Pausha not become *Agrahâyaṇika* instead of Mârgashîrsha, in 451 B. C.? Bentley's *unsupported specula-tiou* must, therefore, be rejected as imaginary. It gives no reason why Mârgashîrsha, the third of the several months which, according to his theory, would successively begin the year from 1193 B. C. to 538 A. D., should alone have been called *Agrahâyaṇika* and none whatever why the Nakshatra should be called *Agrahâyaṇi* contrary to the usual rule, according to which the word should denote the full-moon day.