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Astronomers discover oldest known eclipse reference in 6,000-year-old Hindu text


The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish."

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