James, thank you for sharing the verses.
LJ, I understand (all too well) about time being tight. So, please don’t stress yourself in any way regarding a longer reply on the article ... I only pinged you because I thought it might be of interest to you. I had (and have) no expectations of anything beyond that. The ping was just a gesture of ‘FR’iendship, so no worries at all if you don’t have the time to reply in depth.
Also, please don’t worry about going to a lot of effort to find the astronomical info that we discussed. I only meant that if you ever happened across it again during your reading, myself and others on FR would surely enjoy reading about it. So, please don’t stress about this, either! :)
Since I can’t wish you Merry Christmas (or can I?), I’ll wish you a Happy New Year :) By the way, thank you for all the work that you do on the Moral Absolutes list, and can you add me to it, please? :)
Thank you and a joyful Christmas to you as well. I honor Jesus Christ greatly as a pure representative of God who also taught the same basic truths as in the Vedas - love God, and all of His children. Which in Sanskrit is Bhagavad Bhakti and jiva daya.
In fact, I owe a great deal to Jesus Christ for something that happened to me in Jerusalem as a child. Another story...
I will add your name and thank you for the kind words.
And I want to know about that astronomical thingie myself. I wish I had kept the reference!
I still haven’t found the one describing greater antiquity (yet) but here is another interesting one.
Astronomical Evidence Regarding the Antiquity of the Vedas
From Sky and Telescope, Vol. No. 5, March 1942 published by Harvard College Observatory Cambridge, MA. Page 10:
“Eclipse of July 26, 3928 BC”
[Excerpt]
Astronomy has come to the aid of the historian in determinated the time of the earliest known Aryan colonisation in India*. A solar eclipse, described in the Rig Veda, had been observed by Atri, one of the earliest settlers in the northern Punjab. Among the 22 central solar eclipses that occurred near the Summer Solstice withint the given time interval, there is one and only one that fulfills all the required conditions inferred from the Rig Veda. That one occured on July 16, 3928 BC (Julian Calendar).
*(My comment) The “Aryan invasion” is now being soundly debunked and it has been proven without a doubt (except for those who cling to it for various reasons) that it was invented by British Indologists to falsely taint the ancient Vedic civilization as of recent origin. This is a huge topic in itself and has much evidence supporting no so-called Aryan invasion at all. In fact, in the Vedic texts, the word “aryan” never means a race, ethnic group or kingdom or society. An “aryan” means a civilized human who understands and practices varnashram dharma system of religions and civilized behavior; one who knows the spiritual and moral values of life. As opposed to for instance barbarians or those who practice no religion or morality.