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ween two successive arrivals months correspondig with
of the moon at the same fixed different seasons were difier-
star ll. ent in old days 9.
Nautical Almanac : used for
M preparing new almanacs 7.

Manazil : the Arabian Nak~ha­ Nirayan : and also Nirayanvadis
tra system 5. prefer to abide by the fixed
zodiac mentioned in the
Mantra : the second strata of
Siddhantas 8.
the Vedic literature I.
Marduk : the Chaldean Indra, 0
fought with the Chaldean
seven headed dragon Tiamat, Oldenberg : Oriental scholar,
prototype of the Vritra-In- said Tilak's and Jacobi's
dra story 90, 93. Vedic antiquity theory un-
Max Muller : Orientalist, his tenable 10.
calculations re the stages of Old Testament : its account of
the Vedic civilization develop- creation and deluge and
ment 1; rejected Weber's Sabbath borrowed from
view that the Indians borrow-
Chaldean sources 92.
ed their astronomical system
Orion : or M:rigashiras men-
from the Babylonians 6; held
tioned in reference to the
~igveda to be the oldest of
interpretation of the Vedas 9;
the Vedas 86.
Tilak's thesis challenging
Month : civil days and lunar
established opinion about the
days 12, 13.
age of Vedic civilization 9, 10.
N
p
Nak~htra : a way of reckoning
Pancha Siddhantika : Vanl.ha
time ( siderial) 15.
Mihir's work, epitomises
Nak~htras : according to the
Pitamaha Siddhant giving
Indian division 27 starting
rules for omitting a tit.hi or
from a fixed point in the
introducing an intercalary
ecliptic 7; counted from the
month 16.
movable solstices or equinoxes
8; their series began with Papi:1i : his age mentioned in
different Nakshatras to cor- reference to the rule that a
respond with different posi- month be named after the
tions of the equinoxes 9; fixed Nak~hatra 8.