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Solar eclipses in India’s cultural and political history
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
Abstract
This contribution presents earliest records in the Indian stone inscriptions and literature that specifically mention the eclipse as total or annular and the eclipses that timed with wars. Solar cult temples can be found all over India. In a few, the assigned dates coincide or are close to the dates of solar eclipses of large magnitude in the area.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy , December 2019 , pp. 339 - 343
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- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union
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