Exact age of B.Gita

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Here are some opinions in this regard.

 

 

On the basis of the large number of astronomical data given in the

Mahabharata itself by Srila Vyasadeva (all these data are said to be

consistent), Prof. M. Rangacharya has calculated that the battle of

Kuruksetra started at 6.30 a.m. on Friday, 22. November 3067 B.C.

(That day was Ekadasi.)

 

 

"Prof. Srinivas Raghavan of Sri Aurobindo Study Circle, Madras, approached

the subject wholly on astronomical basis and while explaining his own paper

and of Sri Sampat Iyengar observed that the Mahabharata itself is teeming

with a number of astronomical data, which were all consistent. The Rajasuya

Yajna was performed on the Jyestha Mula Amavasya day (Sabha Parva, ch. 36)

i.e. with the sun at 2400 of the Govt. of India Zodiac. 15 years later, the

Amavasya was with the sun at 224.75 Jyestha as described by Veda Vyasa in

Udyoga Parva, ch. 14. Three lunations later on Magha Sukla Astami day

(Bhisma Nirvana day), the sun was at 318.0. The previous day the sun was at

316.5. Veda Vyasa clearly states that it was Rohini Naksatra on Bhisma

Nirvana (Anusasana Parva, ch. 237, 273, Santi Parva, ch. 46). Therefore, in

the year of the Mahabharata War, the vernal equinox was at 46.5. Now in 1975

A.D. it is at 23.4: hence it has moved by 69.9 at an average rate of 72.5

years per degree. Therefore, the age of the Mahabharata War was 69.9 x 72.5

= 3190 B.C."

 

Swami Bon Maharaja (quoted in the same book) has calculated as follows:

Lord Sri Krsna passed away from this world on the Amavasya of Pausa of 5076

i.e. 3101 B.C. or 3179 before Saka era and that was the beginning of

Kali-yuga.

Lord Sri Krsna was born 125 years 4 months before this date i.e. 5201 of

Bhadra Krsna Astami or 3226 B.C.

The War of the Mahabharata started 36 years before Lord Krsna left this

world i.e. on Amavasya day of Pausa of 5112 i.e 3136 Pausa Amavasya B.C.

(February).