The Solar Numbers in Angkor Wat

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1998-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9811040v2

Indian Journal of History of Science, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 117-126

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History and Philosophy of Physics

9 pages; the revised article presents additional information regarding the cultural background in Cambodia. The Journal versio

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The great Vishnu temple at Angkor Wat in north-central Kampuchea (Cambodia)
is known to have been built according to an astronomical plan. In this note we
show that the little-understood solar formula of the temple is identical to the
one in the 2nd millennium BC Indian text called Shatapatha Brahmana. We propose
that the Angkor Wat formula was an expression of the Shatapatha astronomy.

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