Solar Eclipse - Myth, Legend And Reality
By Pablo Ruiz
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Ancient humans must have found eclipses unnerving and unpredictable. Periodically, they are not easy to understand because of their complex nature. It is both dramatic and transient when a solar eclipse takes place. Due to diffraction on the moon's surface and its jaggedness, a solar eclipse appears to remove the sun from the sky as the sun disappears. However this simple explanation has fascinated humans for thousands of years. Shrouded in mystery it is both, a connection to the heavens but what also makes us feel uniquely human.
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Solar Eclipse - Myth, Legend And Reality - Pablo Ruiz
Solar Eclipse
In the Rig Veda, the earliest document dating from India, there is an outpouring of descriptions of solar eclipses dating from between 1700 and 1400 BC (Subbarayappa 2008; Sarma and Subbarayappa, 1985). Between 600 and 900 BC, there is a more detailed description of eclipse phases that appears in later literature. There are, however, no calendar details accompanied by these details, so these details cannot be dated. There is an explanation for eclipses based on the theory that Rahu has a bodyless head and attempted to eat up the Sun and the Moon because of an enmity between them (Damle, 2011). The Aryabhata theory, established in 499 AD, explains eclipses by explaining that the Moon transits between Earth and the Sun and in its shadow. Due to the fact that the Sun or Moon are devoured by Rahu in India, eclipses are considered particularly difficult for the gods, and as a result, large donations are common during eclipses. It is common to find stone or copper plate inscriptions recording these donations along with their date and place of origin. These are catalogued in various publications of the Archaeological Survey of India for a fraction of the excavations. The records we scanned date between 400 AD and 1800 AD and we found more than a thousand records. The three data sets provide a valuable database for conducting systematic studies of ΔT (including the one in this volume, by Soma and Tanikawa).
Ancient humans must have found eclipses unnerving and unpredictable. Periodically, they are not easy to understand because of their complex nature. It is both dramatic and transient when a solar eclipse takes place. Due to diffraction on the moon's surface and its jaggedness, a solar eclipse appears to remove the sun from the sky as the sun disappears. Thus, it would be logical that the occurrence of eclipses should be mentioned in ancient literature, and their occurrences should be marked by specific customs. Different contexts have recorded these events. A solar eclipse's location is highly sensitive to subtle changes in the Earth's spin caused by tidal interaction or other shifts in the Earth's angular momentum distribution (Soma and Tanikawa, this volume). Our purpose is to discuss which references to eclipses are found in classical Indian literature and the amount and quality of eclipse reports available from India.
There has been an eclipse recorded in India as far back as 1400 BC, in Rig Veda verse 40, the earliest known Indian written record (Subbarayappa 2010). There is a description