Lord Krishna spent 125 years on earth: Swami Gyananand Saraswati

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Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

Lord Krishna spent 125 years on Earth: Ascetic

 

Indo-Asian News Service Ahmedabad, September 10

 

It was February 18, 3102 BC Friday at 02 hours, 27 minutes and 30

seconds in the afternoon when Lord Krishna left his earthly body for

his heavenly abode - or so claims an ascetic after intensive

calculations.Swami Gyananand Saraswati of the Varanasi-based Adi

Jagadguru Shankaracharya Vedic Research Institute also claims to have

calculated exactly how many hours Lord Krishna spent on Earth and his

precise age when the epic battle Mahabharata ended.

 

He says Lord Krishna spent 125 years on Earth and departed precisely

5,106 years ago. The ascetic scholar presented a detailed timeline of

the life of the Lord before a gathering of scholars at Somnath temple

in Prabhas Patan, 350 km from this Gujarat city.

 

He says his calculations are based on the study of various Indian

scriptures, including Skand Purana, Shrimad Bhagawat Purana, Shri

Vishnu Mahapurana, Matsya Parva and the epic Mahabharata.

 

He also referred to the astrological treatise Bhrigu Samhita for

dating various events in Krishna's life.

 

He fed the data into a computer and used a special software to

determine the longitude and latitude of various places mentioned in

the texts.

 

He says Krishna departed this world 36 years after the war of

Mahabharata.

 

"His age on the last day of the war was 89 years, two months and

seven

days. That tallies with the estimate of 125 years," Saraswati

asserts.

He claims that Krishna was born the 22nd day of the fourth month of

the 863,874th year of Dwapar Yug, which was the eighth day of the

second half of the Hindu calendar month of Shravan, the day

Janmashtami, or the birth of Krishna, is celebrated.

 

Saraswati, who is at the Somnath temple complex for a traditional

four-month sojourn of Chaturmas, declared his findings on Tuesday to

coincide with Janmashtami celebrations.He has also worked out a

chronology of the temple, one of the Dwadasha Jyotirlingas or the 12

most important temples of Lord Shiva.

The temple has been reconstructed many times in its history.

 

The present temple was constructed in 1951 at the behest of Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel, the first home minister, and the idols were

installed by India's first president Rajendra Prasad.

 

http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_997986,0008.htm

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