Version 1.4.5_1 Discussions and Bugs

Mayunk Vahia’s follow up article to ,An Examination of ‘Atri’s Eclipse’ as Described
in the Rig Veda called, ‘Tilak was Right : Aaryan Did Come From Arctic’
(2024) See Researchgate.net/Publication/385476535.

It appears that Mayunk Vahia has shot himself in the foot over the previous co-authored
article with Mitsura Soma on ‘Atri’s Eclipse’.

In the Tilak article Nov.2024) it shows he is in the Aryan Invasion theory (AIT) camp
opposing the Out of India Theory (IOT) camp. He claims Indians descended from a particular
spot or place in the Caucasian Region of Russia and migrated into India later.
The location he lists is Lake Issyk Kul in East Kyrgyzstan. The article looks like
it was hastily put up on the website. There are no page numbers even though the Contents
Page lists the page number for each section. Figures are out of numerical order
and some parts are repeated in the text.

In the section on the location of the Rig Veda ,he drops a clanger, bomb shell by
stating that there is no mention ,whatsoever, of the Sanskrit word ,Mrigashirsha
(also spelled as Mrgasiras) for the constellation Orion (See Section, Solstice
Ratio and the Composition of Rig Veda) ANYWHERE in the Rig Veda. I checked this out
from another Indian author, from the OIT camp, Shrikant Talageri (see https://
Talageri.blogspot.com for Dec 2017 article) and it’s true.

For the Atri ‘eclipse’ paper it is stated that the authors had two constraints
to search for the ‘eclipse’, 1) Sun three days before Autumnal Equinox and
2) Sun in Orion at vernal Equinox.

The last constraint is now clearly voided. It gets worse. To have one of the
two possible ‘eclipse’ dates ,3811BC shadow path go over Lake Issyk, Vahia
recalculated its path again (assumed so here).That is shown on Figure 3 in
his Tilak article but labelled as Vahia and Soma 2023. When you zoom in on
the delta t value it shows 43,000 seconds as opposed to 130,000 seconds
in the Atri article (Vahia & Soma,2023,407,Section 4).This is impossible
for such an early date year as 3811BC (although it could be a mistype ).

That’s not all, remember they used genetics to claim a location near the
Caspian Sea. It now appears that the genetics map for that is one of
many possibilities that they cherrypicked or zoomed in on (see figure 14 and
paragraph directly underneath it).

This now means they have no specific location for either 3811BC or 4020BC
and the only constraint left for searching for an eclipse is the one
where the Sun is three days before autumnal equinox. However, that mention of
equinox either vernal or autumnal, is demolished by author Shrikant Talageri.
See his article on December 2017 on his blogspot.

In fact, Talageri demolishes any astronomical dating or references for
the Rig Veda. he states ” No where in the Rig Veda is there any mention
of equinoxes of any stars of constellations and finding a date to
‘match’ Atri’s ‘eclipse’ he states as an impossibility as there are
no specific details in the hymn verses to do this. There is no mention
of Orion (spelt in his article as Mrgasiras) anywhere in the Rig Veda.

He blames early researchers such as Tilak and Witzel etc. for adding
confusion to the Rig Veda chronology (readers should read sections 2 and
3 of his long article) In section 3 he lays out the internal relative
and absolute chronology of the Rig Veda from all the 10 books or 1028 hymns
and the Atri ‘eclipse mention is in book 5 which he has dated to between
2200BC down to 1400BC. This he says is based on linguistics, archaeology and
textual analyses and is irrefutable being based on logic and common sense.
it does look like researchers trying to date this Atri reference to any
eclipse are going around in circles and Vahia & Soma’s attempt is just
one in a number of attempts over the last 20 years which runs into
dozens of attempts !!