History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.443

v6.c82.443

It is possible to argue that in two verses of the Ṛgveda (I 24.8 and I. 164. 11) there is a reference to the Zodiacal belt 'King Varuṇa made a wide path in order that the Sun may follow it'; 'the wheel of *ṛta* has twelve spokes and it again and again revolves round the sky, but it is not worn out'⁸⁸⁶