Guest guest Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 HinduCalendar , " Krishen " <jyotirved wrote: Shri T. V. Sivaramanji, Jai Shri Ram! Your response to Shri Darshaney Lokeshji's Tithi-Patrak is quite encouraging and heartening. Regarding your suggestion, " Meanwhile in your latest 15th para after the sentence ....none of the nakshatras are equal ... etc. i suggest you may add : " only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " my views are: Such a " system of nakshatra division " had been mentioned by Brahnmagupta and has been discussed by Alberuni in his Alberuni's India. I experimented with that system also but some of the Junction Stars, said to be the mileposts of nakshatras, did not fall in that unequal division either. As such, I left it at that. I am not very sure that alluding to such a system will not create more acrimony than is already there for the new nakshatra division especially since the mileposts cannot be accommodated in the Brahmagupta's system either. Besides, I am personally not sure at this stage about the veracity of the nomenclature of Junction stars vis-a-vis their namesake nakshatra divisions, since the earliest reference we find to these junction stars is in the Surya Sidhanta of Maya the mlechha. There is every possibility that he had taken those longitudes from the work of Hipparchus etc. which may not necessarily have been those very stars that the Vedic Seers had meant. Regarding your suggestion, " Similarly you may mention : " In India the saka era is more popular and this Patrak is using this era. Prabhavai years are linked to Saka era but these years are linked to the movement of Guru ( Juiter ) . Guru completes a rotation around the sun every 12 years and in the sixty year cycle it comes around 5 times. When it transits the zodiac sign of Aquarius and when the sun enters Mesha then Kumbha mela is celebrated at Haridwar. This famous Kumbha mela is shown in the general erroneous panchangas to occur in 2010 when the Krodhi samvastar previls and jupiter stays in Pisces " there can be a small addition/correction in the sentence " When it (Jupiter) transits actually the so called sayana Kumbha Rashi/sign and when the sun enters so called sayana Mesha Rashi/sign then and then only kumbha mela was celebrated at Haridwar in the past as it has been thoroughly established that right from about first century BC/AD till about sixteenth/seventeenth centuryAD, only so called sayana rashis were followed in India . Therefore, this famous Kumbha mela is shown in the so called nirayana panchangas, including the Rashtirya panchanga, wrongly to occur in 2010 since Brihaspati was in Sayana Kumbha Rashi at the time of the sun's ingress into sayana Mesha Rashi on March 21, 2009. Brihaspait, on the other hand, will be in (Sayana) Mina rashi in March 2010 and there cannot be, therefore, any real Kumbha mela then i.e. in 2010 " Jai Shri Ram A K Kaul HinduCalendar , darshaney lokesh darshaneylokesh@ wrote: > > Dear TV Sivaraman ji, > There seems nothig objectionable in accepting your suggession in para 3 of your reply, hence accepted. > But the matter of para 2nd is not correct, in fact. It is not true to say that, " Only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " > What I know, is that there is no nakshtra equal to the span of 13 degree and 20 minute.To suit the astrolgy this was an adjusting calculation only. Such all adjustments have to be neglected and the truth be brought forwarded please. > Thanks. > Darshaney Lokesh. > > > > ________________________________ > SIVA EXPORIUM sivaexpo@ > > > Dear Darshaney Lokeshji: > I received your latest mail effecting some corrections. I tried to translate these into Tamil, but due to too technical words > I feel it is better if a tamil translation is not used. As most people who may use the Patrak can understand English it will not be difficult. However I am attempting a near good translation and it would take a few days. > Meanwhile in your latest 15th para after the sentence ....none of the nakshatras are equal ... etc. i suggest you may add : " only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " > Similarly you may mention : " In India the saka era is more popular and this Patrak is using this era. Prabhavai years are linked to Saka era but these years are linked to the movement of Guru ( Juiter ) .. Guru completes a rotation around the sun every 12 years and in the sixty year cycle it comes around 5 times. When it transits the zodiac sign of Aquarius and when the sun enters Mesha then Kumbha mela is celebrated at Haridwar. This famous Kumbha mela is shown in the general erroneous panchangas to occur in 2010 when the Krodhi samvastar previls and jupiter stays in Pisces. > What a travesty of the shastras. Also there is a difference of 14 years in the prabhavati years used between north and south India. This has caused due to the error in initial fixation. This has been corrected in our Patrak and therefore for all India 25th day of Madhu (March16, 2010 ) will be the commencement of Krodhi samvatsar. > I am also attaching your latest mail after spelling corrections including in the table. The repetition of the word Gatey in the table has been removed. > > Best regards - T.V.Sivaraman > > > India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in./trynew > --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 HinduCalendar , " Krishen " <jyotirved wrote: Shri T. V. Sivaramanji, Jai Shri Ram! Your response to Shri Darshaney Lokeshji's Tithi-Patrak is quite encouraging and heartening. Regarding your suggestion, " Meanwhile in your latest 15th para after the sentence ....none of the nakshatras are equal ... etc. i suggest you may add : " only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " my views are: Such a " system of nakshatra division " had been mentioned by Brahnmagupta and has been discussed by Alberuni in his Alberuni's India. I experimented with that system also but some of the Junction Stars, said to be the mileposts of nakshatras, did not fall in that unequal division either. As such, I left it at that. I am not very sure that alluding to such a system will not create more acrimony than is already there for the new nakshatra division especially since the mileposts cannot be accommodated in the Brahmagupta's system either. Besides, I am personally not sure at this stage about the veracity of the nomenclature of Junction stars vis-a-vis their namesake nakshatra divisions, since the earliest reference we find to these junction stars is in the Surya Sidhanta of Maya the mlechha. There is every possibility that he had taken those longitudes from the work of Hipparchus etc. which may not necessarily have been those very stars that the Vedic Seers had meant. Regarding your suggestion, " Similarly you may mention : " In India the saka era is more popular and this Patrak is using this era. Prabhavai years are linked to Saka era but these years are linked to the movement of Guru ( Juiter ) . Guru completes a rotation around the sun every 12 years and in the sixty year cycle it comes around 5 times. When it transits the zodiac sign of Aquarius and when the sun enters Mesha then Kumbha mela is celebrated at Haridwar. This famous Kumbha mela is shown in the general erroneous panchangas to occur in 2010 when the Krodhi samvastar previls and jupiter stays in Pisces " there can be a small addition/correction in the sentence " When it (Jupiter) transits actually the so called sayana Kumbha Rashi/sign and when the sun enters so called sayana Mesha Rashi/sign then and then only kumbha mela was celebrated at Haridwar in the past as it has been thoroughly established that right from about first century BC/AD till about sixteenth/seventeenth centuryAD, only so called sayana rashis were followed in India . Therefore, this famous Kumbha mela is shown in the so called nirayana panchangas, including the Rashtirya panchanga, wrongly to occur in 2010 since Brihaspati was in Sayana Kumbha Rashi at the time of the sun's ingress into sayana Mesha Rashi on March 21, 2009. Brihaspait, on the other hand, will be in (Sayana) Mina rashi in March 2010 and there cannot be, therefore, any real Kumbha mela then i.e. in 2010 " Jai Shri Ram A K Kaul HinduCalendar , darshaney lokesh darshaneylokesh@ wrote: > > Dear TV Sivaraman ji, > There seems nothig objectionable in accepting your suggession in para 3 of your reply, hence accepted. > But the matter of para 2nd is not correct, in fact. It is not true to say that, " Only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " > What I know, is that there is no nakshtra equal to the span of 13 degree and 20 minute.To suit the astrolgy this was an adjusting calculation only. Such all adjustments have to be neglected and the truth be brought forwarded please. > Thanks. > Darshaney Lokesh. > > > > ________________________________ > SIVA EXPORIUM sivaexpo@ > > > Dear Darshaney Lokeshji: > I received your latest mail effecting some corrections. I tried to translate these into Tamil, but due to too technical words > I feel it is better if a tamil translation is not used. As most people who may use the Patrak can understand English it will not be difficult. However I am attempting a near good translation and it would take a few days. > Meanwhile in your latest 15th para after the sentence ....none of the nakshatras are equal ... etc. i suggest you may add : " only 15 nakshatras are having the span of 13 deg 20'. Six are of one and a half times higher than the average span and six others have only fifty percent or the average span and all these put togther and deducted from 360 degrees will be the span of Abjit. " > Similarly you may mention : " In India the saka era is more popular and this Patrak is using this era. Prabhavai years are linked to Saka era but these years are linked to the movement of Guru ( Juiter ) .. Guru completes a rotation around the sun every 12 years and in the sixty year cycle it comes around 5 times. When it transits the zodiac sign of Aquarius and when the sun enters Mesha then Kumbha mela is celebrated at Haridwar. This famous Kumbha mela is shown in the general erroneous panchangas to occur in 2010 when the Krodhi samvastar previls and jupiter stays in Pisces. > What a travesty of the shastras. Also there is a difference of 14 years in the prabhavati years used between north and south India. This has caused due to the error in initial fixation. This has been corrected in our Patrak and therefore for all India 25th day of Madhu (March16, 2010 ) will be the commencement of Krodhi samvatsar. > I am also attaching your latest mail after spelling corrections including in the table. The repetition of the word Gatey in the table has been removed. > > Best regards - T.V.Sivaraman > > > India has a new look. Take a sneak peek http://in./trynew > --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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