the beginning of the Kali-age

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> Dear Vaisnavas,

>

> please accept my humble obeissances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> "According to revealed scriptures and astrological calculation, the age of

> Kali is in its five thousandth year." (Bhag. 1.7.8 purport)

>

> I heard that in the Mahabharata can read the posotion of the stars at the

> time of the battle of Kuruksetra.

>

> I would like to ask, where are these verses in the Mahabharata, and how

> can calculate this 5000 year?

> We have other sastric references?

>

> Thank you very much.

>

> ys.: Premamoya d.

 

 

If you go to my site www.ShyamasundaraDasa.com then click on

 

resources>downloads you will find the complete Ganguli edition of the

Mahabharata. Download it, then go to the section just before the actual

battle of Kurukshetra. There you will find mention of stellar positions of

the planets.

 

However you may be a little dissapointed in that they are rather enigmatic

references and not easy to understand or use for arriving at a date. I have

seen MANY speculative dates for the battle of Kurukshetra none of which can

be acertained as being accurate. However many are clearly wrong. All we

realy know from Mahabharata is that the battle took place 36 years before

the beginning of Kali Yuga (I am quoting 36 years from memory I may be off

on that number).

 

The main reason it is so hard to decipher this information is because of the

deal that Vysadeva made with Ganesha. Vysadeva asked Ganesha to write down

the Mahabharata as Vysadeva dictated it. Ganesha agreed to do so on the

stipulation that Vysadeva speak without stopping. Vysadeva agreed to

Ganeshes proposal on condition that Ganesa not write anything down until he

understood what Vysadeva had written. Vysadeva composed about 8000 slokas

that were so deep and enigmatic in meaning that Ganesa had to pause for a

while beofre he could understand the meaning. So if these verses caused

Ganesha to pause and think for a while then what to speak of mere mortals

like us.

 

Yours in teh service of Guru and Gauranga

 

Shyamasundara Dasa