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If ZB 2.1.2.3 (and also the neglected passage in BZS 27.5)[N.221]
indeed would indicate the spring equinox in kRttikA, then this may very
well be a popular or learned remembrance of times long past, for the same
passage of ZB also remembers that the Great Wagon/Big Dipper (ursa maior)
was "formerly" called ''the bears''. This is an old Indo-European
expression (Greek, Latin, etc.). The name RkSAH  indeed occurs once in the
RV and this is copied in TA, ZB (Witzel 1999c), before the asterism
acquired its well-known name ''the Seven RSi'' (sapta rSayaH, cf. Avest.
haptO iriNga = *sapta liGgA(ni), cf. now Plofker, EJVS 6-2, 2000).

Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

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