The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda and Archaeoastronomy
The following text is a brief description of breakthrough work Dr. Subhash Kak published in nearly two decades ago. My sincere thanks to Dr. Kak for publishing such revolutionary thought, sometimes challenged by other scholars, however I remain very grateful! The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda (New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1994; revised and enlarged edition, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000) claims regularities in the organization of the Rigveda, connecting the structure to certain numbers in the astronomy-based ritual of the five-layered brick altars of the Vedic times. Kak’s archaeoastronomical claims have the effect of significantly extending the Vedic period, postulating the arrival of ethnic Indo-Aryans to the 7th …