Astronomy & Cosmology
The 27/28 nakshatra lunar mansions
1st millennium BCEVedic astronomersVedic textsPan-Indian / unspecified
1,000 BCE
A system of 27 or 28 star groups marking the Moon's monthly path.
- Dated
- 1,000 BCE–0 CE
- As scholars put it
- 1st millennium BCE
- Originator
- Vedic astronomers
- Source text
- Vedic texts
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Astronomy & Cosmology
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Lunar mansion systems also existed in China and the Arab world.
Fair to say
One of several ancient lunar-mansion systems.
Path to modern innovation
Still used in Indian calendars and naming traditions.
1,000 BCEThe 27/28 nakshatra lunar mansions
300 CE
1957Transmission
Origins and transmission are debated.
References
- 1Plofker (2009)
Further reading
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