History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.193
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.193
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749a 749 a. The Greeks held the waxing moon lucky and the waning moon unlucky Hesiodic system (which is at least several centuries later than the Ṛgveda) furnishes the earliest evidence for lucky and unlucky days, though Hesiod admits that there was divergence of opinion on that point. Hesiod puts a special ban on the 5th day of the month, while the 7th day was sacred to Apollo in Greece and was held sacred in Babylon also Vide L R. arnell in 'Greece and Babylon' p 294.