Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s20.188

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¹³⁸ Cf. Macdonell, Sanskrit Literature, 12, 202; Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 20 et seq. It has been put earlier: see Thibaut, Astronomie, etc., 18; Bühler, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 55, 544, and cf. Bühler, Sacred Books of the East, 2, xl et seq.; Indian Antiquary, 23, 247; von Schroeder, Indiens Literatur und Cultur, 45 et seq. See also Jolly, Recht und Sitte, 3; Hillebrandt, Rituallitteratur, 31, who are inclined to accept an early date, fourth or fifth century B.C., for the Āpastamba Sūtras, from which a still earlier date for the Brāhmaṇas must be conceded. But Eggeling is more probably correct when he assigns the Āpastamba Sūtras to the third century, B.C. See Sacred Books of the East, 12, xl, and it seems unwise unduly to press back the date of Vedic literature. It is noteworthy that in the Epic the solstice is still in Māgha (Mahābhārata, xiii. 168, 6. 28). Reference is, however, made (ibid., i. 71, 34) to the Nakṣatras commencing with Śravaṇa, and the first month is Mārgaśīrṣa (see Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 24, 21 et seq.). Cf. also Tilak, Orion, 37, 216.