Astronomical Dating of one Rig Vedic Verse

Earth’s axis of rotation “wobbles,” causing constellations, as viewed from Earth, to drift at a constant rate and along a predictable course over a 25,000-year cycle.

How Uttarayanam moved from Makara Sankranthi to Dhanur Masam

http://ancientindians.wordpress.com/manvantaras-revati-and-yugas/

Using the same kind of calculations as I have explained in the above links, the Rig Veda has been dated by others at 6500 BC.  A Rig Vedic verse that observes winter solstice at Aries can be correlated to around 6500 BCE. Frawley states, “Precessional changes are the hallmark of Hindu astronomy. We cannot ignore them in ancient texts just because they give us dates too early for our conventional view of human history.”

So we know that at least that one verse was composed in 6500 BC.

Below is some info on moving equinoxes: The word originally below refers to western astronomy.

For the Rig Veda It was the WINTER SOLSTICE and not the Vernal Equinox that was in Aries.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/VernalEquinox.html

“The date (near March 21 in the northern hemisphere) when night and day are nearly the same length and Sun crosses the celestial equator (i.e., declination 0) moving northward. In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox corresponds to the center of the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving southward and occurs on the date of the northern autumnal equinox. The vernal equinox marks the first day of the season of spring. The right ascension at the vernal equinox ?originally? was in the constellation Aries and the point of crossing was known as the first point in Aries (now actually in Pisces because of precession ).

Date	UT	Date	UT	Date	UT
03-20-1980	11:05	03-20-1990	21:15	03-20-2000	07:25
03-20-1981	16:54	03-21-1991	03:04	03-20-2001	13:14
03-20-1982	22:43	03-20-1992	08:53	03-20-2002	19:03
03-21-1983	04:32	03-20-1993	14:42	03-21-2003	00:52
03-20-1984	10:21	03-20-1994	20:31	03-20-2004	06:41
03-20-1985	16:10	03-21-1995	02:20	03-20-2005	12:30
03-20-1986	21:59	03-20-1996	08:09	03-20-2006	18:19
03-21-1987	03:48	03-20-1997	13:58	03-21-2007	00:08
03-20-1988	09:37	03-20-1998	19:47	03-20-2008	05:57
03-20-1989	15:26	03-21-1999	01:36	03-20-2009	11:46

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July 2006
Author	of Image: Tauʻolunga