History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.786

v4.c63.t2.786

We find that the Mahābhārata employs two classes of expressions. When it uses words like 'tiṣṭhati' (stands), 'ākramya' (having traversed), 'samvṛtya or samparivārya' (having covered or concealed) it means that the planet was in or very near that nakṣatra. When words meaning 'afflicts (pīḍayati) are employed, the meaning is probably that the planet has only dṛṣṭi on the nakṣatra. It is impossible to say whether the rules and theories about dṛṣṭi or pūrṇa dṛṣṭi and partial dṛṣṭi had been evolved at the time of the Mahābhārata War. If the war was fought about 3101 B. C. or even 1931 B. C. there is nothing to establish that the theories about dṛṣṭi contained even in the Atharvajyotiṣa (which is certainly later than the Vedāngajyotiṣa of the Ṛgveda i. e. much later than about 1200 B. C.) were known then. Vide under Venus for further difficulties.