Timeline for What is the origin of Indian weekday names?
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| Mar 30, 2019 at 0:46 | history | protected | Steve Bird | ||
| Mar 30, 2019 at 0:40 | answer | added | John Dee | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 15:54 | answer | added | ILAMPARITHI | timeline score: -1 | |
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| Aug 28, 2018 at 10:16 | answer | added | Suvarna | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 2:31 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Not sure this is a history question.... | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 1:43 | vote | accept | Anubhav C | ||
| Apr 14, 2016 at 9:18 | answer | added | sunil parkar | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 17:45 | answer | added | Tyler Durden | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | user3459110 | Maybe it could have been. Farewell! | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:05 | comment | added | Anubhav C | Frankly, I don't think this discussion can lead anywhere useful. I'm ending it from my side. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | user3459110 | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:03 | comment | added | user3459110 | Would you mind coming to chat? Its getting dense here! | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:02 | comment | added | Anubhav C | Also, do you realize how nonsensical your comments are? "Why are the weekdays named in that order?" "Because the grahas were ordered that way." "How do we know the grahas were ordered that way?" "Because the weekdays are named in that order." Your reasoning is circular. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 15:00 | comment | added | Anubhav C | They were called the Navagraha (nine graha) for a reason. Rāhu and Ketu, which we'd call lunar nodes today, were considered heavenly bodies on par with the other seven by ancient Indians. If the week was inspired by Indian astrology (which I'm fairly sure it wasn't), we should have had a nine-day week not a seven-day one. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | user3459110 | By hindsight, one can presume why such and such a convention was used. Well, it is something cool; mysterious (thats what we love); something easy to notice. Further, I guess, seven was considered holy and the number of visible heavenly bodies matched it. And, seven is also a reasonable number to use for week days. Why the Indian week has seven days instead of nine - I already answered the question in my previous comment. Only the seven were known. 5 planets, a Sun, and a Moon. | |
| May 31, 2014 at 14:44 | comment | added | Anubhav C | Nice answer, now prove you didn't make it up. Where's the evidence that (a) ancient Indians considered that to be the order of the Navagraha and (b) the order of weekdays was derived from the order of the Navagraha, and not the other way round? A Navagraha-based answer would raise questions about (a) why the Indian week has seven days instead of nine (b) why the Greeks used to same sequence of weekdays, even though they assigned the heavenly bodies a different order (ctrl-F Chaldean) | |
| May 30, 2014 at 16:25 | comment | added | user3459110 | First, the title tag - "Indian astrology". Second, that table itself. "Vaar" in Hindi means "Day". And, those heavenly bodies were the only ones visible to the naked eye, in that order. That is why, we chose only them... | |
| May 30, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | Anubhav C | Can you point out the sentences in that article which you think answer this question? | |
| May 29, 2014 at 11:17 | comment | added | user3459110 | The link you gave of Wikipedia answers your question... | |
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| Dec 9, 2012 at 11:56 | history | asked | Anubhav C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |