The History of Indian Literature c8.238

c8.238

⁹² For further particulars, see *I. St.*, xiii. 104–106. [^asterisk]: Amongst them, for example, the enumeration of the whole of the lunar asterisms in the Ápastamba-Saṃhitá, where they appear in an order deviating from that of the later series, which, as I have pointed out above (p. 30), must necessarily have been fixed between 1472 and 536 B.C. But all that follows from this, in regard to the passage in question, is that it is not earlier than 1472 B.C., which is a matter of course; it nowise follows that it may not be later than 536 B.C. So we obtain nothing definite here. [This remains correct, though the position of the case itself is somewhat different; see the notes above, p. 2 and p. 30. In connection with the enumeration of the Nakshatras, compare especially my essay, *Die vedischen Nachrichten von den Nakshatra*, ii. 299, ff.]