History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.222

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Babylonians: B. and Assyrians based astrology on three assumptions 546; B. and Greeks had no generally believed doctrine of Karma and Punarjanma, 546, difference between B. astrology and Greek astrology 550-51; nakṣatras not integrated with religious systems in, 509; called Capricorn goat-fish 565n; imagined there were three ages of the world, gold, silver and copper 689n; no cuneiform tablet yet discovered where all the 27 or 28 nakṣatras are arranged in an orderly series 509; observations by B. of planets from 2nd millenium B. C., 570.