So is Mahabharata an account of the ancient history of Bharat. His proposed/plausible dates for Mahabharata War are NOT. The mother of all wars, the mother of all rivalries, the cauldron of emotions, insecurities, jealousies and power play - Mahabharat. Dr. Sabaratnam and Shri V. Sundaram also associated with Dr. Mahalingam had arranged for a visit to the planetarium in Chennai.

Nilakantha, the commentator, thinks that the expression tribhagashesha pakshah denotes ‘Magha Sukla Panchami’ or the fifth lunar day in the month of Magha after Amavasya, the new moon. 5-6). 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. Please write to us. The first and oldest eclipse pair from 3129 BC is unique. In the Rajatarangini the total for the reigns from the end of Andha Yudhishthira-the last of Gonanda III’s dynasty-to Kalhana’s own time is 1329 years, 3 months, 28 days, say roughly 1330 years. The vernal equinoctial colure passed through the star Rohini or Aldebaran. Share these articles on facebook to help spread awareness of Hinduism on the internet. We will organize a team of young scholars to work with the Birla Planetarium, under the guidance of Dr. Ramasubramanian to make a presentation in the Planetarium demonstrating the inscriptions on the skies around circa 3000 BCE. As the name Duryodhana is clearly symbolic...is the name Arjuna also not to be taken quite literally ? 1177-76 B.C. While we are not competent to say what is probable or possible in the…. Moreover, in the Dronabhisheka Parva (Sections II and V), Karna is said to have refrained from taking part in the war for the ten days during which Bhishma was the generalissimo of the Kaurava army. Hereunder is provided a short table dates of important Mahabharat events in years. 8 kings ruled Prussia from Ivan III at 23 years. As a matter of fact, this very number of days (ibid. Dr. Phanindralal Gangooly notes: "From all of which we gather that the summer solstitial colure of the earliest Brahmana period when this was the case was 3100 BCE (PC Sengupta, Age of the Brahmana, in Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. The Bhishma Parva and Udyoga Parva (specific chapters of Mahabharata) provide considerable astronomical/astrological descriptions and omens as the Mahabharata war was approaching. Shri Krishna was the last to be sent on a mission of mediation and he started for Hastinapura (Udyoga Parva, LXXXIII.7) “in the month of Kaumuda, under the constellation Revati at the end of the Sarad (autumn) season and at the approach of the Hemanta (dewy season).” According to the commentator and also to the translator, Kaumuda is the Kartica month. Motion of Angaraka or Mars is normal. If the emendation proves to be correct we have here another testimony to the correctness of our conclusion that the war began in Chitra Nakshatra. His recording of over 70 such planetary events are almost like a record of celestial inscriptions within the text.

for the war, our other lines of discussion point to 1194-3 B.C. Any observer on dark face of earth can see when lunar eclipse when it occurs. © S.V.Ramanan and Ramani's blog, [August 2009- August 2021). The armies began their march to Kurukshetra in Pusha, were organized in effective divisions in Magha, and actually engaged in battle in Chitra. Most of these belong to the war portion of the Mahabharata, which, according to Weber, is recognizable as the original basis of the epic. by reaching the research findings in Bharatiya Itihas to a large number of school children and scholars all over the world and promoting further studies in Mahabharata as a sheet-anchor of Bharatiya Itihas. Many of these were found to be weak penumbral eclipses of moon, and solar eclipses had such low obscurity as to raise the issue whether any body could see them. If Sri Krishna returned from Hastinapura with the answer of Duryodhana on Pushya Nakshatra it is reasonable to allow some time for the marching of troops, for the ground to be cleared, for the pitching of tents, for the divisions of the armies to be properly effected, and most of all, for the allied princes to bring on their respective divisions to the field of battle. The discovery of the courses of Vedic River Sarasvati traversing a distance of 1,600 kms. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

The presently known oldest version of Mahabharata, based on its style, grammar and other features was probably written down before the Gupta period.