The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t9.12

c5.s2.t9.12

According to Dr. Burgess the sexagesimal system of Hindu astronomy was borrowed from the Greeks.¹ This implies that the *Jyotiṣa Vedāṅga* which has become a popular work in pre-Kauṭalīyan days (4th century B.C.) must have been written after India's contact with the Greeks. It is an untenable position. *Jyotiṣa Vedāṅga* is an ancient production belonging at least to the later half of the Vedic Period. It holds the field as a valuable piece of scientific composition. If Greece could develop in the direction of sexagesimal system, could not India develop also in that line? Further that the sexagesimal system is exclusively Greek in origin has not been proved. It is just possible that India developed this system on independent lines.