Ancient Indian Astronomy Texts

[Luis Arnold Gonzalez-Reimann]

On Tue, 21 May 1996, Sushil Jain wrote:
>  
> "The idea of drawing conclusion on the chronology of the earliest
> Indian literature with the assistance of _astronomical_data",
> says Winternitz...
>  
> Sushil Jain


Although more than a hundred years old, W.D. Whitney's article on the 
matter is still worth reading:

"On the Jyotisha Observation of the Place of the Colures, and the Date 
Derivable from it."  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1865:316-331.


Sincerely,

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
University of California, Berkeley