Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology

The book "Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology" offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian texts. Archaeoastronomy is a subfield of positional astronomy that allows for the determination of the epochs of ancient astronomical alignments and significant astronomical events. This work examines specific stellar alignments and events documented in ancient texts to identify the antiquity of these descriptions. The multitude of ancient writings from India, such as the Vedas and Puranas, contains numerous astronomical details that point to the well-developed positional astronomy of ancient India. The dating of significant events, such as the Mahabharata war, is conducted to establish a chronology of ancient India. This astronomically determined chronology is compared with findings from various archaeological, paleoclimatological, geological, and genealogical studies. The book is aimed at readers interested in unraveling the mysteries of the protohistory of this ancient civilization.