Guest guest Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 > >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). > > Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > If I am not mistaken, in his book Mysteries of the Sacred Universe > Sadaputa Prabhu gave the exact date for the beginning of Kali-yuga and > quoted some references from the sastra as to the exact position of stars > at that moment. I do not have the book at hand and therefore cannot be > more specific. Sorry. > > Begging to remain > > your servant, > Madana-mohana das This is the orginal question: > 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. The question is NOT about the beginning of Kali Yuga, which is well known (midnight on the meridian of Ujjain in India on February 18, 3102 B.C.), but the battle of Kurukshetra which is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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