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Dixit ( Shankar Balkri§hlta ) : quity of the Vedas 9; on the
writer of ' History of Indian insertion of the intercalary
Astronomy', attacked Whit- months 61, 62.
ney's prejudices 3, 33; com- Grahala.ghava : a Sanskrit as-
mended Colebrooke 3; chief tronomical work 7.
advocate of the S3.yana 8;
his work ' History of Indian H
Astronomy ' gives the data of
Hellebrandt (Alfred) : German
the antiquity of Vedic Civi-
Sanskrit scholar, writer of
lization 13, pointed out the
'Vedic Mythology' 103.
modifications made later in the
Vedang Jyoti~h 16; on the 'History of Ancient Sanskrit
insertion of intercalary Literature' : Max Muller's
months 61, 62. work attempting to fix the
age ofthe Vedic civilization 1.
Dwivedi ( Pandit Sudhakar ) :
writer on Vedang Jyoti.sh, ' History of Indian Astronomy' :
advocate of the Nirayan 33. S. B. Dixit's Marathi work 3;
gives the data of the anti-
E quity of the Vedic civilization
13.
Equinoxes : seasons depend on
these and solstices and never I
remain fixed in the ecliptic 8;
the precession of i. e. the Indian almanacs : based on the
backward movement of the Grahalaghav and ancient
seasons 8; slow retrograde Siddhantas were faulty before
motion of the sun 11. Western education 7.
Indian Astronomy : attracted
Euphrates and Tigris : their
Western scholars 1, 2; articles
mouth was a home of an
written by Western scholars
ancient civilization 85.
in Asiatic Researches 2.
European Oriental scholars : see
Indian calendar : its base 12.
under Barth, Bulher, Poussin,
Indian lunar months : named
Winternitz etc.
after and tied to the fixed
Nak~htras near which the
G
moon is full at the time 8;
Gaudapada : Bhashyakar on steady incorrespondence with
the SAnkhya Karikas 73. seasons they represented 8;
Godbole ( K rish:Q.ashastri) not connected with stars they
writer of essays on the anti- represent 8.