"...a reference in Satapatha Br II, 1, 2, 2-3 to the effect that the Krttikás/Pleiades are fixed in and do not swerve from the east. This reference has been examined, analysed, interpreted and discussed ad nauseam yielding all kinds of results according to the scholar’s desires. S. Kak arrived at a date 2950 (1994:35). This comes very close to what Achar finds, namely that such astronomical events could have been observed only c 3000. Achar mentions that S. B. Dikshit had propounded the very same idea about 100 years earlier but later Western scholars rejected it by claiming that the ÍB phrase "never swerve from the east" means something else."
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Kazanas, N. (2002). Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda: Indo-Aryan migration debate. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 30(3-4), 275-334.
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