Vishu Bindu – Indra – RV 8.2.40

In the Rk Veda, the Vishu Bindu referred to Indra.

In the 9th Samputanu of the Vignana Sarvaswamu – Telugu Encyclopedia, combined with a book on Indian Astronomy, written by grandfather, Kandula Nagabhushanam, this is what I found, and understood (with some help from my father). First take, the earths’ axis, and then take a plane perpendicular to it, through the earth’s equator. Now extend that equatorial plane till it intersects the earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun in two points. The two points are the two times a year when the earth’s orbit intersects the equatorial plane. They are… you guessed right the equinoxes, one in Spring and one in Autumn.The Malayalis celebrate their new year, on Vishu. The word I want to draw your attention to is Vishu Bindu, the point of intersection of the equatorial plane with the earth’s orbit in Spring.

Notes :

The explanation shlokam  quoted is : Subhrahmanyam, Subrahmanyam, Subrahmanyam, Indragaccha hariva, agachha methatithe, mesha vrushanaashvasya mene” meaning: Indra, the Vishu Bindu, moved from Kruthika (related to kruthika – karthikeya) to Mesha and Meena. Rk Veda Mantram 8-2-40: Itthaa dheevantamadripah kaanvam methyatithim, meshobhuto abhi yunnayah.Wilson, who did not know Indian Astronomy, translated as ”the king of the thunder, came in the form of a goat to please methatithi a descandant of Kanva.”

It is said that unless you learn, Vedanga Jyotisham, Chanddas, Panini’s grammar and Yaska’s Niruktham (etymyology) among a few other things, you can never understand the Vedas. (search for posts on theses topics in satyaveda and ancientindians blogsites on wordspress.) Let us attempt a translation at that point.

RV_08.002.40.1{24} itthā dhīvantamadrivaḥ kāṇvaṃ medhyātithim
RV_08.002.40.2{24} meṣo bhūto’bhi yannayaḥ

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