Mahabharata as sheet-anchor of bharatiya itihaas

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"S. Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97>

Wed Jan 8, 2003 8:56 am

Subject:Mahabharata as sheet-anchor of bharatiya itihaas: Colloquium

deliberations, 2003

Mahabharata as the sheet-anchor of bharatiya itihasa

 

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/colloquium/mahabharata01.htm

 

This URL provides links to the deliberations of the International

Colloquium

held in Bangalore on 5 and 6 Jan. 2003 on Date of Kurukshetra War

based on

astronomical data.

 

More links on the presentations made during the colloquium will be

included to

present all contributions, as soon as the digital versions of the

papers become

available from the scholars and scientists.

 

In my view, the seminal paper was that of Dr. BN Narahari Achar who

has

established the internal consistency of almost all the astronomical

references

contained in the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata. Of course,

more work has

to be done to iron out the text variants and commentaries of

Vadiraja and

Nilakantha and relate the chronologies to the chronologies of, for

example,

Aryabhat.iya and Bra_hman.as (Kaus'i_taki_ and S'atapatha

astronomical

references).

 

The date of start of the war is Nov. 22, 3067 BCE. Sky inscriptions

or

celestial epigraphs are observed by Veda Vyasa and recorded in the

epic with

extraordinary fidelity.

 

This document thus becomes the sheet-anchor of Bharatiya Itihaas and

with a

historiography unparalleled in any historical texts in any

civilization

anywhere in the world, recording the chronology of events to the

accuracy of a

tithi, nakshatra and solstice, apart from the observations of

celestial events

such as comets and meteor-showers and of course, planetary

constellations and

lunar-solar-eclipse sequence within a month, as they constitute the

most

accurate clock of the times.

 

The next steps: 1. Resolving some observations made by scholars in

future

colloquia; 2. Mahabharata planetarium project and 3. resolving

astronomical

references in other ancient texts of Bharat using modern-day

technologies which

have planetarium software to desk-tops.

 

Indeed, we have two technologies: 1. satellite imagery analysis

which help

validate the geographical and geo-physical data of the epics; 2.

Planetarium

software which help validate the astronomical data contained in the

epics and

Brahman.a-s.

 

Kalyanaraman