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History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.789

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.789

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v4.c63.t2.789

Jupiter cannot stay for one year in one nakṣatra; it traverses 2¼ nakṣatras in a year. If at the time of the war Jupiter was near Viśākhā it could not have been near it for a year. Eleven months before that it would have been very near Citrā. If it was near Viśākhā at the time of the war and the Sun was in Jyeṣṭhā, it can hardly be correct to say that seven planets had come together in the sky (there being a distance of about two nakṣatras or about 26