![]() Over a long period of time the effect of precession was also felt as with the loss of importance for the constellation Śiśumāra (Draco) and shifting of the Pole Star Dhruva. In the following articles we investigate briefly how comets, meteorites, and eclipses were experienced and pictured in the Vedic texts. Hence when one talks of Vedic Times several precautions are necessary. ![]() But for the more ancient period we have no exclusive texts other than Lagadha’s Vedānga Jyotiṣa (c 1400 BCE) which is a calendar with no reference to eclipses or planets. ![]() This has been possible since several texts of the period, specifically devoted to astronomy are available for systematic study. For the siddhānta period, roughly starting with the Common Era, (CE) such questions have been fairly well answered. In the context of India, the question is what was known, in what detail and when. Something of all of these was known to our ancients though not in the same form and detail as it is available now. Astronomy in popular perception is about stars, planets, sun, moon, eclipses, comets, meteorites and associated observable phenomena.
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