History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.268

v6.c81.268

The method of reckoning time by tithis is a very early one and is indigenous to India Though Western scholars have from time to time put forward various theories about the so-called Greek influence on Indian astronomy and astrology and about the Indian Nakṣatra system being borrowed from the Chinese (Biot) or from the Babylonians (Weber) or from the Arabs (Sedillot), no western scholar has had the courage, so far as I know, of alleging that the system of tithis is not indigenous but is borrowed from some non-Indian source. The theories about Greek influence will be briefly dealt with in the next section.