Vedanga Jyotisha

Vedanga Jyotisha (IAST: Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa), or Jyotishavedanga (Jyotiṣavedāṅga), is one of earliest known Indian texts on astrology (Jyotisha).[1] The extant text is dated to the final centuries BCE,[2] but it may be based on a tradition reaching back to about 700-600 BCE.[3]

The text is foundational to Jyotisha, one of the six Vedanga disciplines.[4] Its author is traditionally named as Lagadha.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ N. P. Subramania Iyer (1991). Kalaprakasika. Asian Educational Services. p. 3.
  2. ^ Witzel 2001.
  3. ^ Subbarayappa 1989, pp. 25–40.
  4. ^ Hart Defouw (1996). Light on Life: An Introduction to the Astrology of India. Penguin. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-14-019507-1.
  5. ^ Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India, Firma K.L Mukhopadhyaya (1986), pp. 486–494
  6. ^ Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997), p. 977
  7. ^ Chakraverti 2007, p. 33.