A Concise History of Science in India c5.s3.t2: Jyotiṣa

c5.s3.t2.1

As a *Vedāṅga*, the science of astronomy (*jyotiṣa*) is available in the recensions of the *Ṛgveda* and the *Yajurveda*, but containing the same materials. As an astronomical text, this will receive further treatment in the chapter on astronomy. The text is dated *c.* 400 b.c.,a but the astronomical elements taught therein, the positions of the equinoxes that can be deduced from clear statements, belong to the period of the *Saṃhitās* and the *Brāhmaṇas*.