Nothing on earth can be lifted without touching it unless forces at distance works.But our myth has many instances when a body disappeared and appeared again at another place. In Chapter XIII of the Brihatsamhita, Varahamihira, born in 505 A.D., deals with the Saptarshi cycles and quotes Vriddha Garga: “When king Yudhishthira ruled the earth, the seven seers were in Magha; the Saka era is 2526 years after the commencement of his reign.” The translator, Dr. Hultzsch (Indian Antiquary VIII, p.66) comments, “The coronation of Yudhishthira took place 2526 years before the commencement of the Saka era, or at the expiration of the Kaliyuga-Samvat 653 and in B.C. Its various incidents have been portrayed in stone, notably in sculptured reliefs at Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom in Cambodia, and in Indian miniature paintings. It states facts, however improbable it might seem to us. Dutta says, “A little to the east of the Kosala kingdom, two kindred clans, the Sakyas and the Koliyans, lived on the opposite banks of the small stream Rohini …Kapilavastu was the capital of the Sakyas.” The followers of Gautama Buddha were often spoken of as “Sakyaputriya Sramanas” in contradistinction possibly to the Sramanas of other sects. Hence the count of the day and time had to be based on clear, natural and unambiguous events such as sunset to sunset or sunrise to sun rise. Gargacharya – a few years prior to 1165 B.C. After serious analysis of all the eclipses, six eclipse pairs from 3129 BCJ, 2599 BCJ, 2056 BCJ, 1853 BCJ, 1708 BCJ and 1397 BCJ clearly are the best candidates for Mahabharata war year from 'thirteen day' eclipse pairs view point. II,6.4 Br. Even during normal monsoon the sky is occasionally clear for the eclipses to have been witnessed. Six pairs of 'thirteen day' eclipses could be seen unambiguously. 1860, repr. Mahabharata, (Sanskrit: “Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty”) one of the two Sanskrit epic poems of ancient India (the other being the Ramayana). We have the textual references from the critical edition of the Mahabharata (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute). The remainder of the poem addresses a wide range of myths and legends, including the romance of Damayanti and her husband Nala (who gambles away his kingdom just as Yudhishthira gambles away his) and the legend of Savitri, whose devotion to her dead husband persuades Yama, the god of death, to restore him to life. As the fifty-ninth day after Bhishma’s fall corresponded to Magha Sukla Panchami, Revati or Aswini Nakshatra, the day of Bhishma’s overthrow, which took place on the tenth day of the war, happened, in accordance with the 84 principles of the Vedanga, on Margasirsha Sukla Panchami, in Dhanishtha Nakshatra; and the Amavasya preceding it happened on the fifth day of the war in Jyeshtha Nakshatra. Normally, this is the monsoon rainy season in North India. When the Pandavas abdicated, Parikshit must have been about 16 years old (the age of majority according to Hindu lawyers). This was the “tradition” Kalhana refers to in the excerpt above. [ http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati ] Thus, the Mahabharata constitutes a historical document with a wealth of geographical, geophysical information and vivid pictures of the society and political institutions of the times (such as janapadas involved in nation-building), in continuation of the Vedic traditions which refer to Bha_ratam Janam. Interesting Analysis.. thanks for effort sir.. It is inexplicable how Kalhana and other scholars could overlook such a glaring slip. The poem is made up of almost 100,000 couplets—about seven times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined—divided into 18 parvans, or sections, plus a supplement titled Harivamsha (“Genealogy of the God Hari”; i.e., of Vishnu). I have been lying on my bed here for eight and fifty nights” (ibid. One such conflicting statement occurs in the Gadayudha Parva. The Dipawanso computes by the era of Nirvana beginning in 544-3 B.C. 2.7.11). If the Saptarshis had moved 6 ½ Nakshatras from the time of Yudhishthira’s coronation to the Nirvana of Buddha, that would be more appropriately expressed as the movement of the Rishis through 26 padas and the period denoted thereby would be put down as twenty-six times twenty-five years. When Saptarishis (ursa major) was near Magha Yudhistira was king 2526 years before Saka time
Analysis of the time between successive eclipses, specifically time between end of one and beginning of other has been made, with a view to look at astronomical feasibility of back-to-back eclipses in 13 days, using modern astronomical computer software. A very detailed scan of all the visible lunar and solar eclipses for every year from 3300BC to 700 BC was made on the Lodestar software for Kurukshethra location. In a paper presented at the international colloquium held in Bangalore on Jan. 5 and 6, 2003 and organized by Akhila Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Yojana, Mythic Society and Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Southern Chapter, Dr. Achar conclusively proves that the observed celestial events on the sky, observed by Veda Vyasa were based on a variety of observations: 1. Several years later, when Devavrat had grown up to be an accomplished prince, Shantanu fell in love with Satyavati. We are told that: the winter solstice happened on Magha Sukla Panchami; the tenth day battle happened fifty-eight days before it; Bhishma, who died on Magha Sukla Ekadasi, gave up the ghost fifty-six days after the close of the war; a period of fifty days intervened between the end of the war and the winter solstice; the war lasted for eighteen consecutive days; the Amavasya, which occurred soon after the commencement of the war, happened in Jyeshtha Nakshatra; the armies began their departure to the field of battle in Pushya Nakshatra; and. Created by Siddharth Kumar Tewary. of Physics, University of Memphis, USA), The Date of Mahabharatha War based on simulation using Planetarium Software, Dr. S. Kalyanaraman (Sarasvati Nadi Shodh Prakalp, Chennai), Date of Mahabharatha War with reference to Bhishmashtami, The Date of Mahabharatha based on Indian Astronomical Works, Archaeological Evidence for Dating Kurukshetra War, Dr. Shambhu Shastry (Franklin, USA) and Dr. Venkateswar Reddy (Sunnyvale, USA), Natural Cycles in the Solar System and the Chaturyuga Cycles, Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites, Reclaiming the chronology of Bharatam: Narahari Achar (July 2006).