The History of Indian Literature c10.63

c10.63

Pp. 250, 251, note ²⁷⁴. The proposition laid down by H. Jacobi in *Z. D. M. G.*, xxx. 306, that no Indian writings, which enumerate the planets in the order—Sun, Moon, Mars, &c.—can have been composed *earlier* than the third century A.D., has application to Yájnavalkya, as well as to the Atharva-pariśishṭas, which in point of fact already observe this order; see *I. St.*, x. 317.