Vedic astronomy and early Indian chronology

The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 309-331

  Kak, Subhash ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203641880     Document Type: Chapter

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