In the Vedic era, there was never a seven-days-a-week concept. Similarly, astrologers were also not known at the time. They came later, when Alexande… - Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

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In the Vedic era, there was never a seven-days-a-week concept. Similarly, astrologers were also not known at the time. They came later, when Alexander came to India and brought several of them along with him. Indians carried forward astrology.

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About Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (19 July 1938 – 20 May 2025) was an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar was a proponent of steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory.

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Alternative Names: Jayant Vishnu Naralikar
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