“Astronomy and the Vedic Calendar” (SB 3.21.18)

Alachua - November 21, 1996 / (081)

Thompson offers a detailed account of the Vedic conception of time. He then compares time reversibility equations considered within contemporary physics with the cyclic process of cosmic creation and annihilation described in the Puranas. Thompson also discusses the Eastern lunar calendar and its 360-day year.