Hindu Astronomy

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Good collection acharya. The bibliography on Ancient Indic astronomy, is so huge that David Pingree called his compilation of the literature Census of the exact sciences. I have in my possession just one volume, Volume 4, which runs from Pa , Pha , Ba to Ma ,Ma . and runs into 446 pages of citations.

And yet Pingree titles his Ph.D thesis "Materials for the Study of the Transmission of Greek Astrology to India."
. Note he assumes it is a given that such transfer took place
. Blessed are those that are gifted with the aura of certainty, especially when it comes to events that took place 2500 years ago.

Dal me kuch kala hein, mere khyal me.

The earliest Greek mathematiciasn that we know of was Thales of Miletus ( off the coast of asia minor, present day Turkey who is dated at 600 BCE . However the nakshatra system is mentioned in the Aitreya samhita much before then.

But if it did not come from Greece that why title his Ph.D thesis in a misleading manner ?
But then we are told that the transmission came from Babylon (anywhere but from India).l However it is clear that the dating of the Vedas (Samhitas) predated the Babylonians by at least thousand years