Oldest know Solar Eclipse reference found in rig veda new study reveals

Oldest Solar Eclipse: Solar eclipse is a matter of curiosity for the whole world. In India, more people believe in its religious aspect than its scientific aspect. Especially many rules are followed in Hindu religion. The doors of temples are closed. Sutak period is also observed before the eclipse. Now scientists have received important information about solar eclipse from Rig Veda, one of the four major Vedas of Hindu religion. When astronomers studied the Rigveda, they came to know that it mentions a solar eclipse that occurred 6 thousand years ago. This is the oldest information received so far about the solar eclipse.

According to the report of Space.com, the language of Rigveda is mostly symbolic and allegorical. This makes it a little difficult to understand which things are myth and which are historical. However two scientists tried to understand the Rigveda. These include Mayank Wahiya of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and Mitsuru Soma of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Both feel that they have found indications of ancient solar eclipses in the Rig Veda.

Scientists expressed their conclusions Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage Reported in. According to reports, Rigveda was compiled around 1500 BC. Most of the information written in it is contemporary, i.e. during the time when the Vedas were written. However, mention of historical events is also found in Rigveda. Scientists have got information about solar eclipse from one such description.

Scientists, after reading Rigveda, have told about two possible dates of solar eclipse. The first is-
October 22, 4202 BC and October 19, 3811 BC. Both these dates have become the oldest dates in which a solar eclipse is mentioned. Earlier, scientists had found a clay tablet from excavation in Syria. There is mention of solar eclipse in 1375 BC and 1223 BC. A rock carving in Ireland references an eclipse in 3340 BC. Now Rigveda has presented even older dates. If those years of BC are linked to the present time, then there is mention of a 6 thousand year old solar eclipse in the Rigveda.