Veda and Jyothisha

Veda and Jyothisha

the Jyothisha as a subsidiary part of Veda or Vedanga is rather a science probability.. and it was meant to fix the calendar for study of Vedas, and adjust the study schedules and earning periods of the teachers and students according to climatic and other physical conditions..

To know this the astronomical parameters had to be studied and documented with precision, and similar or more or less similar planetary conjunctions were found to be of similar external and terrestrial conditions..

Maybe myths and superstitions might have intervened later on..

And there is a lot of varied views about the existence of Vedas in it pristine purity and the interpretations after introduction of various rules of Chandas, Shiksha, Niruktha, vyakarana and kalpa and so on in addition to jyothisha..

Even though I do not know what is meant by the Vedic Astrology as canvassed by many today, there is a lot of difference between the practice and interpretation of Vedas some five thousand years ago and after introduction of the Vedangas, much later..

it is clear that overwhelmingly huge parts of Vedangas,, and interpretation of Vedas on that basis were of much later origin..

The Sayana and Bhattabhaskara Bhashyams can be dated back to three or four hundred years from now..So there can be material variation between the Bhashyams and the statements in Vedas as they existed five thousand years ago..

What I wanted to give as my view is that we need not be overly dependent of vedangas.

. Vedas originally must have had some existence even without these vedangas, jyothisha included