The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c15.s1.t1.9

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Dikshit,³ from a passage of the Brāhmaṇas (Ś.B. II, 1, 2⁴), fixes the age of its composition at 3000 B.C. The words "They (the *Krittikās*) do not move from the eastern quarter while the other asterisms do move from the eastern quarter" he takes to mean, definitely, that the asterism Kṛittikas (Pleiades), and no other asterism, was on the equator; and he writes "In my opinion the statement conclusively proves that the passage was composed not later than 3000 B.C." Many other similar interpretations have been strived after.