Vedic Time, Part two

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The term March is from 'Marichi one of the

skrit names of the Sun. Since that month marks the

inning of longer days alias a kind of waxing of the

plight hours it was named after the Sun. Another expla-

'on is that March signified a start i.e. marching orders.

Since in ancient practice the beginning of the year

 

 

 

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coincided with that period, the opening month was named March.

 

 

These clues should help scholars to trace the Vedic origin of the terms

April, May, June and July or their earlier Sanskrit substitutes. It could be

that May is named after Maya i.e. illusion (in Sanskrit), the Holy Spirit

which consorted with the Creator to create the cosmos.

It is commonly believed that the name July originates from Julius Caesar and

Augustus from Augustus Caesar. These could be explanations concocted by

latterday scholars. Muslim and Christian histories bristle with such

concoctions. By that token other Roman emperors too should have had the

remaining ten months named after themselves. Were they less egoistic or

ambitious?

The term August and even the imperial name 'Augustus' derive from sage

Agastya (9mM) an ancient seer and Vedic scholar of world renown who was

known for his impressive personality. The terms august personality' and

august presence' derive from that sage. That Agastya had a world impact is

additional proof that the Vedas were revered and recited all over the world

in ancient times.

Even the Sanskrit term Imas' (;rm) signifying a month is still used in

Europe. The European terms Christmas and Michaelmas signify the months in

which celebrations concerning Christ (alias Chrisn) and Michael are

observed.

European scholars are so oblivious of the Sanskrit meaning of the term 'mas'

(month) that they equate Christmas with only one day i.e. December 25, and

Michaelmas also only with one day, namely September 29.

Equating the term 'Christmas' with one day i.e. December 25, and also

sometimes with a whole week (December 25 to 31) is a terminological and

mathematical

 

 

 

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absurdity because the Sanskrit term () December signifies the entire tenth

month. This is due to the present ignorance of the ancient worldwide

prevalence of Vedic, Sanskrit traditions.

This is a graphic pointer to the enormously long period that has elapsed

from the time the Europeans lost touch with their Vedic origins. Their

proselytization as Christians pulled them further away from their Vedic

roots. Whatever we say in this volume, about Christians applies equally to-

Mahomedans. They too were forcibly torn away from their Vedic moorings.

This brings us, incidentally, to the erudite compilers of the Oxford and

Webster's dictionaries. Those dictionaries explain Christmas as Christ's

birthday. They seem to be blissfully unaware that even in their own language

the suffix 'mas' does not signify a birthday. How then could Christmas mean

Christ's birthday ? Had the suffix Imas' signified a birthday we should have

seen everybody celebrating birthdays inviting his near and dear ones to

attend his 'mas'.

 

The other mistake the dictionary-makers make is in explaining the term

X'mas. Since Christian tradition has dinned into them that the terms

Christmas and X'mas are synonymous, European dictionaries explain that X'mas

is an abbreviation of the term 'Christmas' inasmuch as 'X' is the symbol

representing 'Christ' and 'mas' is his birthday.

This explanation is untenable. We have already shown that the term 'mas'

never signifies a birthday in European parlance. Similarly nowhere in

Christian tradition does X symbolize Christ. Could any one imagine one

Christian writing to another using the symbol 'X' wherever he wishes to

mention Jesus or swear in the name of Jesus Christ ? For instance could one

write 'Jesus X to mean Jesus Christ ? Anvbody reading such a letter would

 

 

 

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conclude that 'X' represents some secret, missing, unmen= tionable word.

 

In fact the term Xmas could as well be written as Y'mas or Z'mas for all the

Christians care or know. Because if Christ could be represented by the

algebrical symbol 'X' he could as well be represented by 'Y' or 'Z.

 

This illustration is a measure of the world's ignorance about ancient

history. Most people are content to swallow unquestioned alt they are taught

at school or college. It is only with the help of Sanskrit and Vedic

tradition that we can unravel and rationally explain the terms Christmas and

Xmas.

The Roman numeral 10 is written as 'X' while the Sanskrit word 'mas'

signifies a 'month', Therefore, the term Xmas signifies the 10th month.

Correspondingly the term December also signifies the 10th month. Thus Xmas

is a part expression in figure of the term December meaning the 10th month.

 

The term Christmas (alias Chrisnmas) afro signifies the entire month as

symbolizing or commemorating Christ (Chrisn).

Thus Xmas, Christmas and December are synonyms. And yet erring, blundering

European Christian tradition deviates from the above mathematical,

philological equation to assert that Xmas is 25th December, Xmas week alias

Christmas week is from December 25 to 31, and December is from the 1 st to

its 31st day. The term Christmas is in fact a European corruption of the

Sanskrit term Chisnmas (gs~s~~. Even in India Chrisn is pronounced as Christ

(and Vishnu as Vishtu) in several regions. Therefore, what was traditionally

celebrated as Chrisn-mas in the West, was after the propagation of

Christianity deftly changed to Christmas.

 

 

 

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December was observed as Chrisn-mas because

 

 

Chrisn has mentioned in the Bhagavad Gaeta that of all months Margasheersh

(i.e. December) represents Him.

 

 

That is why the commemoration in churches throughout the world, to the chime

of bells, at the stroke of midnight (on December 25) is that of Chrisn and

not of Christ. The midnight hour is the precise time of Krishna's birth.

Besides no person called Jesus Christ ever existed.

Chrisnmas (pqwu) has been so named in Vedic tradition because that is the

last month of long, dark nights and the word Krishna signifies darkness too.

That month has been named after Lord Chrisn (Krishna)also because the

Mahabharat war ended in December and after its great carnage Lord Chrisn

emerged out of it as an incarnation and the cynosure of all eyes.

The Sanskrit terms September, October, November, December are graphic proof

that in ancient times the names of all the 12 months were Sanskrit and that

the months also followed the Vedic numerical order beginning with March.

In our own day September ranks as the ninth month though its Sanskrit name

proclaims it to be the seventh month. What explains this anomaly ?

September could be the seventh month only if March is counted as the first

month. And actually all around the ancient world, in Rome, in England etc.

the year began only in March. It was only from 1752 A.D. that England

formally switched on to January 1 as the New Year Day. Earlier its New Year

Day used to be March 25.

According to the Vedic lunar calculation the New Year Day varies from year

to year somewhere around March 25. It does not conform to any specific solar

date. Apparently, therefore, the last time when England broke away

 

 

 

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from the Vedic tradition the lunar, Vedic New Year Day fell on March 25.

That is why England continued to observe that date as the New Year Day.

 

This provides a very good clue to detect when England actually broke away

from Vedic tradition and permanently adopted March 25 as the New Year Day.

It should be found out with retrospective astronomical calculations as to in

which year or years in the dim past, did the New Year Day coincide with

March 25 ? One of those could be determined from other evidence as the year

in which England last observed March 25 as the astronomical Vedic lunar New

Year Day.

 

Likewise since Rome observed March 15, as the New Year Day it may be

calculated as to which was the year (or years) in which March 15 coincided

with the vernal equinox i.e. the start of the Vedic lunar New Year Day.

 

That will enable us to determine the year upto which Rome adhered to the

Vedic lunar year practice before

switching on to the stiff March 15 as the New Year Day.

 

The importance of the Ides of March in Roman tradition was due to the

worship of the Vedic Goddess Annapoorna (i.e. the Goddess of plentitude of

food) at the start of the year. It was attended with feasting and rejoicing

and public holiday and worship of the Goddess in tastefully decorated

pandals. That Goddess now stands Christianized

as Anna Perina.

 

Even the word 'Ide' is Sanskrit reed, (~T) meaning 'worship'. Arabic

tradition still retains that original Sanskrit pronunciation, since even in

Islamic tradition the term 'eed' alias lid' signifies a day of worship. Even

the Roman word ,ide' if phonetically pronounced should sound as eed'. Its

current pronunciation eyed' is a distortion.

 

London has been a very ancient Vedic capital. Its ancient Sanskrit name was

Nandanium which is Sanskrit for a 'Pleasing Habitation'. In Roman times,

however, it was misspelled as Londonium. Later this was abbreviated to

London'. In European languages the letter 11' has very often replaced the

Sanskrit letter In'. That is why the Sanskrit name Svetanana (the

fair-faced) is pronounced In Russia, as Svetlana.

 

Vedic Divisions of Time

The current trend of the academic world is to regard the Vedic era as the

most primitive. Contrarily it was an era of almost divine excellence in

every respect because billions of years ago divinity itself provided the

first prototypes of humanity. Those humans of that first generation had a

calculating range which extended from the infinitesimal trillionth of a

second to trillions of years. Such a wide, minute to colossal, computation

system also pre-supposes a highly developed base of scientific and

technological excellence. Hereunder is that split-second scale of ancient

Vedic calculation (mentioned in the 32nd chapter of the Marathi translation

of the Yajurveda, by S. K. Devdhar, Prasaad Prakashan, Pune, India) :

 

1 Paramanu = 379675 Second

2 Paramanu -. 1 Anu

3 Anu = 1 Tryasarenu

3 Tryasarenu = 1 Truti

100 Truti = 1 Vedh

3 Vedh = 1 Lava

3 Lava = 1 Nimish

3 Nimish = 1 Kshan

5 Kshan = 1 Kashta

 

 

 

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15 Kashta = 1 Laghu

15 Laghu = 1 Ghatika = 24 minutes

2 Ghatika = 1 Muhurta

3j Muhurta = 1 Prahar

8 Prahar = 1 Day =. 24 hours

15 Days =. 1 Paksha

2 Paksha = 1 Maas

2 Maas = 1 Rutu

3 Rutu = 1 Ayan

2 Ayan = 1 Varsha i.e. year.