इ2a SURYA SIDDHANTA tba east point * and that (jb} {he spring + set in ones day after the new moon of Guitra. From all of which we gather bhat bhe summer Bo]stitial colure of Bhe earliest Brhmap8 period passed very neatly through he sir & Leonis and that the date when this was the case, was 310 B.C.. The vernal €quinoctial coture passed through the sta Rohip or Aldebaran. In the later Vedic times the sun's turning north very probbbly look place a fortnight earlier . 'The Sutopatha Brahmagu says that
- some want to have a few night more ; if they want some more
then they should begin the sacrifices on the night on which the moon becomes first visible before the full moon at the Phal . .'8 These sacrifie : were begun as soon as the sun turned north. It shows that the solsticas had preceded by about 15° and that the date whe this took place was 2000 B.C. The carlest Brahma22 period nay be called the Roh¢1-Phalguperiod. Even at this time the five early uni-solar cycle was known. he calendar was ]uni-solar in character. The chief signals for the beginning and the end of the year were the full-rmoon all the J. Pagani and tha% \t the T”. Phalguni respectively ; fror which the intercalary wronths were detect Then we have the record of a K?/tiiMugh a period, when the fu]]-1noons at the Pleiade8 and the Regulus were regarded auspicious time for the bat}}< at holy places.| The surnmer folstitial coluze passed through the sta . Regulars and the vernal equinoetial co}are passed through the sta4£ %roup Pleiades. It can be spewn .hat this was the case at the time of the Mahabharata heroes, the Pan avas, who Ze also mentioned in the Aiddrege and the $c¢cpotRed Brahmages,* * Time of this
- एता द् वै प्राच्यै दिशो न यवन्ते--Satcutha Bra१%, I Fipad, Ch. M, Br, 2, 3.
+ ठेवस्थामावास्याय एकाह उपविष्ट टू दीधरत्रगतं शस्यं भवति
- P. c. Bengupta, Age of 1le Brahupas, in the Indian Historical QuBrtly ,
Vol. X, No१ (1984). K saitapatha Brahmaga, I Kip¢a, cb. 6. A Brd, 11 ॥ पञ्चशारदीयो वा एष यज्ञ इति । (wittiriya Brahmagua , 2, 7, 1t.
- MBh, saiCh. 182, 17-18; A»y&48ard, Ch, 85, 85 und 403; Also AW&j®0a
Ch. 94, Aikarya Brahmidt, TV, 8, 921; sotoputha BrahowcuKI K¢¢a, v, 4, 2.