"Aiyar (1922) produces another verse from the Maitrayana Brahmana Upanisad, which he translates as follows: "The manifest form of time is the year. . . . One half of this year is Agneya (the warm half) and one half Vdruna (watery or cold). When the sun moves from the beginning of Magha to half (the segment of) Sravishtha in the regular order . . . it is Agneya [warm]. When the sun moves from the beginning of Sarpa (Aslesha) to the end of Sravishtha half, in the inverse order, it is Saumya [cool]" (1 88). Aiyar interprets this as a direct reference to the uttardyana and the daksindyana of the sun when it was situated in Maghd at the summer solstice... MagKd was at the summer solstice in the era when Krttikd was at the vernal equinox. Dikshit and Aiyar have thus produced additional references in an endeavor to support Jacobi and Tilak's contention that the texts refer to Krttikd coinciding with the vernal equinox which would have been the case in about 2500 B.C.E."
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in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
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