Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
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
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Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
Amitabha Ghosh
Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
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Amitabha Ghosh Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Howrah, West Bengal, India
ISBN 978-981-15-6902-9 ISBN 978-981-15-6903-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6903-6
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To Arunabha Siddhartha Debolina & Mili So that they do not forget their roots
Preface
Though the term ‘archaeoastronomy’ is of relatively recent origin, the technique has been employed in estimating the antiquity of an ancient astronomical reference since quite some time. The author of this volume has taken the liberty of dividing the subject archaeoastronomy into two classes—physical archaeoastronomy and descriptive archaeoastronomy. In physical archaeoastronomy, ancient structures are studied for possible stellar alignments. However, the scope of this technique is somewhat limited as very few ancient structures of adequate antiquity are available for application. The only exceptions are the major pyramids of Egypt and some ancient megalithic structures. In all these cases, however, only the astronomical alignments are related to the rise and setting of the sun on the solstitial and equinoctial days. In some cases, the rising and setting of moon are also studied. The types of studies are conducted mainly to understand the cultural aspects of the ancient civilizations. Since the sunri
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