Solar and lunar eclipse
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
eclipse of the sun or moon · eclipse · grahaṇa
in the texts
Vitae philosophorum
The eclipse of the sun or moon, explained by extinction of light or interposition of another body such as the earth's shadow.
Vīramitrodaya
The astronomical/ritual event of a solar or lunar eclipse, treated as an occasion generating both impurity and obligatory rites.
> At an eclipse of the sun or moon, having fasted before, he should eat.
> At an eclipse, the impurity is like that of a corpse;
This is from the *Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa*.