These observations must therefore have been made elsewhere, and one can hardly refuse to believe that they were made in India where the Chaldeans seem to have borrowed the first elements of their Astronomy.
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‘Il faut done que ces observations aient été faites ailleurs, et on ne peut guères se refuser à croire qu‘elles ont été faites dans l‘Inde où les Chaldéens semblent avoir emprunté les premiers élémens de leur Astronomie.’
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quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189