Vedic Chronology and Vedanga Jyotisha: Containing also Chaldean and Indian Vedas and other miscellaneous essays
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar (Lokmanya)
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Book ID : 29741
ISBN-10 : 81-7755-905-2 / 8177559052
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7755-905-7 / 9788177559057
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2004
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
ix, 175p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Indian astronomy was one of the first subjects which attracted the attention of Western scholars after the existence of Sanskrit literature became known to them in the last quarter of the 18th century. There are a number of learned and critical works written by Indologists like William Jones, Colebrooke, Devies, Bailey, Bentley, Whitney, Jacobi, Plunkett, Biot and many more. Some of these words were highly critical of the Indian system and led to several controversies, and some explored the depth and antiquity of the system followed in India quite brilliantly and in an unbiased manner.
This small treatise attempts to put things in proper perspective, endeavoring to sum up the whole controversy, thus recasting, revising, enlarging, and bringing upto date, the theories which were readily accepted by scholars from all parts of the world.
Tilak's Orion-or Researches into the Anti-quity of the Vedas, and the present treatise put out theories which quickly gained ground among Indologists. These two works have remained standard reference source on the subject.
