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The facts about the Nakṣatras are (with the exception of the data from the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā and the Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra) collected in Weber’s second essay, Die vedischen Nachrichten von den Naxatra, 1861. The first essay, 1860, deals with the problem of origins. See also his discussions in Indische Studien, 9, 424 et seq.; 10, 213 et seq. Whitney’s work lies partly in his scientific determination (in many places correcting Colebrooke’s discoveries) of the later Naxatras in its edition and version of the Sūrya Siddhānta (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 6), and partly in his discussions of the question of origin (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 8), Oriental and Linguistic Essays, 2, 341-421 (with a stellar chart), and of the question of date as against Jacobi and Tilak’s Orion (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 16, lxxxii et seq.). The views of Max Müller are found in his Rigveda, 4², xxxiv et seq. The modern discussion of the dates inferable from the Nakṣatra was inaugurated by Jacobi (1893) in the *Festgruss an Roth*, 68-74 (translated in the *Indian Antiquary*, 23). See also his articles in the *Nachrichten der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen*, 1894, 110 et seq.; *Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft*, 49, 218 et seq.; 50, 70 et seq.; *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, 1909, 721-727. Independently Tilak, in his *Orion*, developed similar views; but most of his special points are disposed of by Whitney in his review cited above. Oldenberg has discussed and refuted Jacobi's arguments in the *Zeitschrift*, 48, 629 et seq.; 49, 470 et seq.; 50, 450 et seq.; *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, 1909, 1090 et seq. Thibaut has also rejected Jacobi's views in an article in the *Indian Antiquary*, 24, 85 et seq. See also his *Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik*, 17-19. The recent literature on the origin of the Nakṣatras consists of articles by Thibaut, *Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*, 63, 144 et seq.; Saussure, *T'oung Pao*, 1909, 121 et seq.; 255 et seq.; Oldenberg, *Nachrichten der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen*, 1909, 544 et seq. The Nakṣatras in the Epic are dealt with by Hopkins, *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, 24, 29-36. Ludwig's views are given in his *Translation of the Rigveda*, 3, 183 et seq.