Archaeoastronomy and Vedic chronology

Modern authors have attempted to date the Vedic period based on archaeoastronomical calculations. In the 18th century William Jones tried to show, based on information gathered from Varaha Mihira, that Parashara muni lived at 1181 BCE.

See also

• Hindu astrology
• Indian astronomy

Literature

• Bryant, Edwin (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture. Oxford University Press.
• Witzel, Michael (1999). "The Pleiades and the Bears viewed from inside the Vedic texts". Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies: 17–26. doi:10.11588/EJVS.1999.2.1513.
• Gondhalekar, Prabhakar (2017). "Śatapatha Brāhamaṇa II.1.2.3; a Coincidence or a Challenge?". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 167 (2): 381–397. doi:10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.167.2.0381. ISSN 0341-0137.