Lord Krishna lived for 125 Years

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"Somnath Trust president Keshubhai Patel declared that celebration of

Krishna's death will be an annual affair now. We will celebrate the

first day of Chaitra every year as Krishna's death anniversary," said

secretary of the trust Ashok Sharma.

 

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Lord Krishna lived for 125 years

 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2004 10:07:31 PM ]

 

RAJKOT: It's now official. The god who took 'avatar' to cleanse the

world of sin, gave us the Gita and promised to return whenever evil

outweighs the good, had lived 125 years on this earth, much longer than

the oldest living man, Fred Hale, who according to the Guinness Book of

World Records , is 113!

 

It was on February 18, 3102 BC that Krishna breathed his last on the

banks of river Hiran in Prabhas Patan, after living 125 years seven

months and six days. He died at 14:27:30 hours, according to a paper

presented at a convention that began at Prabhas Patan, close to

Somnath, on Tuesday as the country celebrated Krishna's birth.

 

"The finding is based on a number of hints in ancient scriptures.

Certain dates related to his life taken from the scriptures were then

fed into a software along with Krishna's characteristic traits for an

astrological calculation to prepare his 'kundli,'" Swami Gyananand

Saraswati, chairperson of the Varanasi-based Adi Jagatguru

Shankaracharya Sodh Sansthan told TNN after presenting the paper at the

gathering of scholars.

 

"While the 'Vishnu Puran' and the 'Bhagvad Gita' mention that Krishna

'left' Dwarka 36 years after the battle of Mahabharata and was not seen

anymore, the 'Matsya Purana' mentions that he was 89 years old when the

battle was fought. Then again, the 'Mahabharata' mentions that the

Kalyug began the day Krishna 'left' and this year is the 5,106th year

of the Kalyug. All these indicators helped us get to the date," said

Saraswati.

 

The research was conducted through three months after the Somnath Trust

made a formal request.

 

The paper was presented in the presence of a host of scholars including

Bhrighu Samhita expert and member of Institute of Future Forecasting

Nandkishore Purohit and National Astrological Parishad president Arun

Bansal. The paper was accepted by those present at the convention.

 

And, armed with this paper, the trust has now decided to observe for

the first time Krishna's death anniversary on April 9, 2005 (the day

falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra in the Indian calendar,

when Krishna is claimed to have died).

 

"Somnath Trust president Keshubhai Patel declared that celebration of

Krishna's death will be an annual affair now. We will celebrate the

first day of Chaitra every year as Krishna's death anniversary," said

secretary of the trust Ashok Sharma.

 

 

 

Aravind Mohanram

Ph.D. Candidate

Dept. of Mat Sci and Engg.,

Penn State University,

University Park, PA 16801

www.personal.psu.edu/aum105