History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.303
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.303
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⁸²⁵ A short passage from Bouché-Leclercq (p. 574) may be set out here: 'how to justify the ridiculous associations of ideas attached to the purely imaginary forms of the figures of the Zodiac and the reciprocal influence of planets on the signs and of the signs on the planets when these are (one knows this since a long time) at a great distance from the constellations and do not appear to be placed there except by the effect of perspective'?