Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology

✍ Scribed by Amitabha Ghosh

Publisher: Springer Singapore;Springer
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 205
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures. Archaeoastronomy is a branch of positional astronomy that helps to determine the epochs of ancient astronomical alignments and special astronomical events. In this book, only the descriptions of special stellar alignments and events found in ancient texts can identify the antiquity of the descriptions. India possesses a large volume of ancient scriptures like Vedas and Puranas which contain many astronomical descriptions as in ancient India positional astronomy was well developed. The antiquities of these texts are determined through archaeoastronomical techniques. Major events like Mahabharata War are dated and using these dates a chronology of ancient India is determined. The astronomically determined chronology is compared with the results from various archaeological, palaeoclimatological, geological and genealogical investigations of ancient India. This introductory book interests readers interested in unveiling the mystery involved with the protohistory of this ancient civilization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 1-10
Rudiments of Positional Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 11-41
Astronomy in Ancient India (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 43-60
Descriptive Archaeoastronomical Approaches (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 61-86
Archaeoastronomical Study of Ancient Indian Chronology: Dating Mahābhārata (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 87-107
Chronology of Vedic and Vedānga Periods (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 109-137
Archeaological, Geological and Genealogical Indications of Ancient Chronology (Amitabha Ghosh)....Pages 139-159
Back Matter ....Pages 161-198

✦ Subjects

Physics; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; History of Science; Historiography and Method; Cosmology

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