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Lokamanya Tilak by highrange is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Tilak was a great scholar of Indology whose main contribution was researching the antiquity of the Vedas. His theory, based on astronomical evidence from references in Vedic texts, dated the Rigveda to around 4000 BC. Tilak analyzed references to the equinoxes and calculated four periods of Vedic literature: 1) the Pre-Orion period from 4000-2500 BC, 2) the Orion period from 4000-2500 BC when the equinox was in Orion, 3) the Krittika period from 2500-1400 BC when it was in Krittika, and 4) the pre-Buddhist

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