Rig Veda and Astronomy

Ancient Sanskrit Literature, especially the Rigveda contains a great deal of Astronomical facts hidden in its hymns. The hymns in Vedas is not just poetry but a treasure of knowledge (Vedas means knowledge) on various sciences, psychology and cosmology. It can be very well noted that Astronomy (सिद्धान्त ज्योतिषम्) and astrology (फलित ज्योतिषम्) combined together called ज्योतिषम् is one of the six subsidiary sciences, of the Vedas (वेदान्गम्) the others being phonetics (शिक्षा), ritual (कल्पम्), etymology (निरुक्तम्), grammar (व्याकरणम्) and metrics (छन्दस्). This article throws some light on hymns in Rigveda which can be interpreted as the theories in modern astronom