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autosummarizer t1_ivkmxyc wrote
Reply to comment by Jonathan3628 in Dating the Mahabharata war – A tale of eclipses, archaeology, and genealogies by SomeDesiGuy
Here is the eclipse the author is talking about. I extracted the information from the NASA site he mentioned in the article.
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/-0999--0900/-900-11-05.gif
autosummarizer t1_ivkq91e wrote
Reply to comment by JonasNinetyNine in Dating the Mahabharata war – A tale of eclipses, archaeology, and genealogies by SomeDesiGuy
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