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A Vedic text describes the motion of the rising point of the Sun north and south along the eastern horizon between the solstices, in similar detail as in Mul Apin.
Mul Apin 1.11-13, 17-18:
The Sun which rose towards the north with the head of the Lion turns and keeps moving down towards the south at a rate of 40 ninda per day. The days become shorter, the nights longer … The Sun which rose towards the south with the head of the Great One turns and keeps coming up towards the north at a rate of 40 ninda per day. The days become longer, the nights become shorter.
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 19.3:
On the new moon of Māgha he (= the Sun) rests, being about to turn northwards … He goes north for six months. … Having gone north for six months he stands still, being about to turn southwards. … He goes south for six months. … Having gone south for six months he stands still, being about to turn north.
Sources (list of abbreviations)
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 19.3
Mul Apin 1.11-13
Mul Apin 1.17-18
Bibliography
| Keith 1920, 452 | Keith, A. B. Rigveda Brahmanas. The Aitareya and Kausitaki Brhamanas of the Rigveda. Translated from the original Sanskrit. Harvard Oriental Series 25. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1920. |
| Pingree 1989, 443-444 | Pingree, David. “MUL.APIN and Vedic Astronomy.” In: Hermann Behrens, Darlene Loding and Martha T. Roth (eds.). DUMU-É-DUB-BA-BA. Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 11. Philadelphia: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 1989, 439-445. |
| Pingree 1998, 128 | Pingree, David. “Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 125-137. |
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