The ideal calendar (1)

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The ideal year of 360 days, as attested in Mul Apin 1.236-242, is also clearly envisaged in some Vedic passages.

R̥gveda 1.164.11:
That twelve-spoked wheel of order which is not for wearing out revolves about the sky; on it, oh Agni, stand seven hundred and twenty paired sons.

Atharvaveda 4.35.4:
That out of which were fashioned the thirty-spoked months, that out of which was fashioned the twelve-spoked year, that which, circling about, the nychthemera do not attain, by that rice (offering) may I pass beyond death.

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Atharvaveda 4.35.4
Mul Apin 1.236-242
R̥gveda 1.164.11

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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