"Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC"

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>[bJP News] "Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC"

>Sat, 8 Nov 2003 08:27:00 -0800 (PST)

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>'Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC'

>SUNIT BEZBAROOWA & ARVIND JOSHI

>TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2003 02:12:42 AM ]

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>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=273107

>"Ram was and is for real. He was born on January 10, 5114 BC," Saroj Bala,

>IRS, Commisioner of Income Tax says, calmly, with the assurance of one who

>has tangible facts. Taking on the contemporary historical interpretation

>of Ramayana as a religio-literary text, and Lord Ram as a semi-mythical

>figure, is this unassuming person who zealously devotes her spare time to

>research in history when she's not playing the tax mandarin. And she has

>chosen the unusual combination of astronomy, Internet and literary texts

>to provide us a startling picture of Shri Ram. This might change the way

>we look at history and religion. We might refuse to begin reading Indian

>history from that comma, or hyphen called 'Indus Valley.' We might have to

>stretch the beginnings by a few thousand years because, as Saroj Bala says

>- Ram was born on January 10, 5114 BC. Excerpts of an interview with the

>lady who has the intellectual courage to go beyond the obvious:

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>What got it all started As an amateur historian, I've always been

>interested in Indian culture and heritage. I am proud that we're Indians

>and the products of one of the oldest civilisations. However, British rule

>changed us; we developed a sense of being somehow inferior. But I could

>never reconcile to theories like the theory of Aryan invasion to India in

>1500 BC. That would make Indian civilization only 3,500 years old. And if

>you choose archaeology to dig beyond 7,000 years, you'd have to dig more

>than 60 metres - something not being done in India as yet. So, archaeology

>is not the only answer. There's a lot of objective research of another

>kind that needs to be carried out in earnest.

>

>So, how can we say Ram was born on January 10, 5114 B.C My colleague

>Pushkar Bhatnagar of Indian Revenue Service is the real originator of this

>theory. He acquired a software named Planetarium, used to predict

>planetary movements and configurations. By entering in this software,

>precise details of planetary positions vis--vis zodiac constellations

>described by Maharishi Valmiki in the Valmiki Ramayan, it is possible to

>determine important dates starting from Shri Ram's birth-date to the date

>of his return to Ayodhya.

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>More than just Ram's date of birth The results have not just thrown up

>Shri Ram's date of birth; it has actually traced the entire sequence of

>incidents throughout Ramayan. Pushkar Bhatnagar starts with tracing Ram's

>birth. Then he moves ahead in the narrative. Valmiki Ramayan states Ram

>was 25-years-old when he went to exile. When the configuration of planets

>described at this point is fed into the software, the date thrown up

>matches perfectly with Ram's age at that juncture of his life - 25 years.

>Again in the 13th year of Ram's exile, during a war with Khar and Dushan,

>Valmiki describes a solar eclipse. The software proves that on that given

>day there was indeed a solar eclipse (with Mars in the middle). This solar

>eclipse and the particular configuration of planets could be seen from

>Panchavati (longitude and latitude plainly shown in the software).

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>Hanuman Saw 8 Constellations while flying to Lanka In the Sunderkand, when

>Valmiki describes Hanuman crossing the sea and returning from Lanka to

>Rameshwaram, he gives details of 8 constellations. Usually, one can see

>not more than 6 constellations at a given point of time. But since Hanuman

>was flying across, and it must have taken him approximately 4 hrs to get

>there, he could see 8 constellations - in two hours one constellation

>would have moved out of sight and another become visible. So, in a period

>of 4 hrs he saw 8 constellations!

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>Historicising Shri Ram. Man or God After researching on Shri Ram, I do

>believe he's a man who walked the earth in flesh and blood. There is an

>essential difference between the Valmiki Ramayana and the Tulsi Ramayana.

>Tulsidas was a devotee who looked up to Ram, but Valmiki was a

>contemporary. Valmiki has written Ram's life-history, as a biographer does

>- he's a contemporary of Ram, and this is not very different from what

>happens all over the world. Kings have always had their life-history

>written.

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>The submerged bridge Recently, NASA had put pictures on the Internet of a

>man-made bridge, the ruins of which are submerged in Palk Strait between

>Rameshwaram and Sri Lanka. This clearly should be treated as historical

>evidence that corroborates its mention in Valmiki Ramayana.

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>The puzzle of Indian history The presence of Ramayana, Mahabharata and

>Vedas cannot be explained by the short period between the decline of the

>Indus valley civilization and the Rig Vedic period. A civilization cannot

>suddenly burst into advanced writing. One needs to look at various sources

>of history to re-build it. Especially when looking at ancient history. One

>needs to excavate, look at literature, ancient texts, astronomy.

>

>Government apathy to archaeological diggings and investigation in this

>direction There's been a very strange development in the media and the

>people of India. We have started seeing ancient India as something

>equivalent to the word 'Hindu'. The very word Hindu came into circulation

>only after the advent of Islam in India. In Ramayana and the Vedas , there

>is no mention of the word 'Hindu'. At the most, there is only mention of

>terms like 'Aryavrat' or 'Bharatvarsh' and residents here are called as

>'Aryans'. Since centuries, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs have been living in

>this country and it's their land as much as it is to a Hindu. Anything

>that has happened on this land in the past is their common heritage. But,

>unfortunately, politicians with vested interests have divided the people

>on artificial religious lines and making it appear that anything related

>to ancient India was perhaps related to Hindu, which is not the case and

>should not be the case.

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>There has never been any strong will It is not that researches have been

>not taken place. There has been excellent work done by noted historians

>like Sir Alexander Cunningham and Dr Lal. Cunningham has written as many

>as 21 volumes on ancient Indian history. But one needs special permissions

>to access these texts. Unfortunately, Cunningham's work that has very

>important information has not seen the light of the day. Dr. Lal has

>pictured the ancient city of Dwarka and it can be read in 'The lost city

>of Dwarka'. He has listed out 1000 artifacts. Only 9 crores needed to be

>sanctioned by the government in placing a transparent tube to the sea-bed

>that could allow people to see for themselves the wonder that was Dwarka.

>And now people equate the sum total of ancient history to 'a temple or

>no-temple' at Ayodhya.

>Delay in research also because science hadn't arrived Without the aid of

>science it is practically impossible to manually calculate the exact

>planetary configuration 7, 000 years back. It is science which is going to

>validate our history and prove that it is much older than 3, 500 years.

>

>What would be the implications of your research on the society? I

>seriously feel that there can only be positive effects of my research. In

>fact, Indians should seriously re-look how old is our history and culture.

>This is not the end of the research; it's just the beginning. People

>should be encouraged to do more in-depth research by all means such as

>archaeology, dating methods and oceanography. Max Mueller had come up with

>the theory that Aryans had come to India in 1500 B.C. In the Internet, Max

>Mueller Foundations says that that they have re-looked at this theory and

>is of the opinion that this theory is no longer valid because Indian

>history is much older than that period. It's just that people have to open

>up their minds and find out the answers for themselves.

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