Published On Jan 30, 2024
Prof. R N Iyengar (Jain University, Bengaluru) spoke on how the effect of axial procession of earth has given rise to many textual references to circumpolar stars in Sanskrit astronomical texts that can be used for a chronological analysis. Using references to the Dhruva star in Sanskrit texts, he presented its stratigraphy as a fixed pole star over close to at least 5 millennia.
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