The History of Indian Literature c8.315

c8.315

¹²⁷ Since *saṃvatsara* is here mentioned twice, at the beginning and at the end, possibly we have here to do with a sexennial cycle even (cf. *T. Br.*, iii. 10. 4. 1); see my paper, *Die vedischen Nachrichten von den Nakshatra*, ii. 298 (1862). The earliest allusion to the quinquennial *yuga* occurs in the Ṛik itself, iii. 55. 18 (i. 25. 8).