१३वा] वेद व वेदांगें. गोष्टीचा उल्लेख चिंनी ग्रंथांत कोठें तरी त्या लोकांनी अवश्य केला असता. परंतु हिंदुस्थानाविषयीं यत्किं चितूही दिग्दर्शन इतक्या पुरातन काळचे कोठेही नसून, फक्त इसवी शकाच्या पूर्वी शेंदोनशें वर्षे मात्र या देशाचा उल्लेख केल्याचे त्यांच्या ग्रंथांतरी आढळतें. शिवाय आमची नक्षत्रें सत्तावीस असून चिनी लोकांत तीं प्रथम फक्त चोवीसच होतीं. यावरून त्यांचेही आह्मी बिलकुल ऋणी नाहीं असे सिद्ध होतें. १ "But here again there is no necessity whatever for admitting with Biot, Lassen and others, that the Hindus went to China to gain their simplest ele- mentary notions of lunar chrononomy. First of all Chinese began with twenty four, and raised them to twenty-eight ; the Hindus began with twenty- seven, and raised them to twenty-eight."
"Now if a scientific system is borrowed, it is borrowed complete. But in our case, 1 see really no possible channel through which Chinese astronomical knowledge could have been conducted to India so early as 1000 before our era. In Chinese literature India, is never mentioned before the middle of the second century before Christ; and if the Chinàs in the later Sanskrit literature are meant for Chinese, which is doubtful, it is important to observe that name never occurs in Vedic literature. पुढे चालू.
