Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s3.28
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s3.28
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c6.s3.28
Both astronomy and astrology seem to have been well advanced, though no information as to their scientific character is available. Of course various nakkhattas were known, and the nakkhattajānanakas made forecasts on the moving of different constellations (nakkhattacāram).⁶ And the popular belief of Rāhu covering up the moon’s orb and the latter’s liberation from the jaws of the former,⁷ and the idea of hare in the moon,⁸ were also prevalent.