Subject: Re: [HM] earliest Pythagorean theorem
From: Bill Everdell (Everdell@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 08:16:44 EST
In a message dated 1/27/00, Dinesh Maheshwari refers to <<the re-dating, in
1990s, of the Vedas to 4300BC (based on the astronomical observations in the
RigVeda)>>
May one know more about this re-dating? Can Dinesh help with a reference?
This date is important in a civilization where written documents almost never
survive two centuries, and even more seldom from the foundational period.
4300 BCE would put the Vedic culture some 2 millennia earlier than the Indus
Valley cities and some centuries earlier than the first writing in distant
Sumer. Are we confident that the astronomical observations to predate
writing or the writing down of the Vedas themselves? Is it at all possible
that the paleoastronomy is correct but not determinative of the chronology
for the composition of the entire Rg Veda or all the Vedas?
Bill Everdell, Brooklyn
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