Prabhakar Gondhalekar presents a history of the calendar of the Vedic period which, the author states, has mystified historians. He points out that the foundational elements of a calendar are noted in the Rigveda Samhita. He argues that the view that Vedic ritualists had a crude calendar which had failed to synchronise the three clocks of nature—the diurnal clock, the lunar clock and the solar clock—is false. He examines the Vaidikas’ ...
