JonasNinetyNine t1_ivko2pk wrote on November 8, 2022 at 5:49 PM

Reply to comment by Jonathan3628 in Dating the Mahabharata war – A tale of eclipses, archaeology, and genealogies by SomeDesiGuy

Well, did the civilization that produced the text possess a elaborate and accurate grasp on and interest in astronomy, as far back as 2922 years ago?

And to date the war, one must operate under the assumption that it was an historical event, and shouldn't rather be understood as a part of vedic mythology

autosummarizer t1_ivkq91e wrote on November 8, 2022 at 6:03 PM

According to Vashistha Siddhanta which was 'supposedly' composed around 1200-1100 BCE, they definitely could predict the motion of sun and moon. Here is a 1980 paper on the topic.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41133571