The History of Indian Literature c9.220

c9.220

Cont * This is why it adheres to the old order of the lunar asterisms, as is done even at the present day in writings that bear upon the Veda. [According to the special examination of the various poiuts here involved, in the introduction to my Essay on the Jyotisha (1862), a somewhat earlier term is possible; assuming, of course, as I there do, that those verses which betoken Greek influence do not really belong to the text as it originally stood. The author appears occasionally also under the name Lagadáchárya; see above, p. 61, note.]