Sidhantakars were unaware of precession of equinoxes.

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Shri T. V.

Sivaramanji,

Jai Shri Ram!

Your efforts in

propagating the right type of Hindu calendar in different forums are really appreciable.

Such efforts are bound to result in a mass awareness, and may even compel “Vedic

astrologers” also to do a lot of rethinking on their stands till date.

I

would like to just make a small clarification (which does not necessarily mean

a correction to your or Shri Darshaney Lokesh’s stand!) regarding your

following statement, “Yes, for well over 1400 years we failed to correct

our calendars (panchangas), for what is known as the precession of the

equinoxes. Our panchangakars take the length of the year to be 365.258756

days as given in the Surya siddhanta of about 500 A.D., while the correct

length of the tropical year, which alone can be used according to the same siddhanta

and modern astronomy, for calendrical use, is 365.242196 days. The difference

of .01656 days is partly due to errors of observation and failure to recognize

the precession of the equinoxes. This modicum of difference has now

grossed up to about 23.2 days, with the result the Indian solar year instead of

starting on the day following the vernal equinox ( vasantha vishu ) on March

22, starts now on April 13 or 14.”

In

fact, precession of equinoxes has absolutely nothing to do with the Hindu

calendar having gone off the track! The Surya Sidhanta, Aryabhatti,

Brahma-sphuta sidhanta and even Munjala’s Laghu Manasa have had absolutely

no idea about precession! It was actually just a calculation mistake on

the part of the Surya Sidhanta, since though it advocated a seasonal year, by

claiming that Makar Sankranti was the shortest day of the year, but the

duration of the year that it gave is more than even that of a sidereal

year! That very mistake was replicated/repeated by all the later

sidhantas! You may be surprised to know that those sidhantakars also had

absolutely no idea about a sidereal year, or for that matter, even a tropical

year! It was just the duration of the sun moving from one Uttarayana to

another or from one Vernal Equinox to another that was known as duration of a

solar year according to them. And that is what is actually known as

seasonal or tropical year in modern astronomy!

When

Munjala suggested an ayanamsha of one arc-minute per year from Shaka 444 to be

added to the calculated longitudes of the Sun and other planets, it was only

because he felt that the Mesha Sankranti was taking place earlier by about

seven days in tenth century AD as per the Surya Sidhanta/Aryabhati calculations

than the actual phenomenon. He translated that difference of time into

degrees and called that difference as ayanamsha! It has absolutely

nothing to do with precession! The rest of the planets other than the

sun, are not “drik-tulya” even after Ayanamsha corrections as

suggested by Munjala, since those planetary longitudes are neither sidereal nor

tropical,

Regarding

the lack of knowledge of precession by Maya the mlechha, it is evident from the

three interpolated shlokas 9-11 in Triprashnadhikara reading, “trimshat

kritya yuga bhanam….”. As per those shlokas, the “ayanamsha

is moving like a pendulum from zero to 27 degrees plus and then 27 degrees

minus”, whereas precession is unidirectional! It means that even as

late as after tenth century AD (post Munjala’s discovery of Ayanamsha), when

those interpolations had been made in the Surya Sidhanta, even the interpolator

had no idea about precession, since he would not have made that correction of

27 degrees plus and/or minus, but made it unidirectional. Besides, if

those shlokas had been present in the original surya sidhanta, one or the other

sidhanta-kara, whether Aryabhata or Brahmagupta or even Munjala would

definitely have mentioned them. But we do not find any indication in any

of those sidhantas till the time of Bhaskara-II!

Secondly,

whatever some extraordinary scholars of the Surya Sidhanta may say, the

Ayansmaha derived from those three interpolated sholkas as on date is different

by about 46 degrees from Lahiri Ayanamsha, whereas those “scholars”

and even the Hindi translators of Narada Purana of Gita Press are presenting it

in a manner as if it is just a degree or so less than “almighty”

Lahiri ayanamsha, which is -24 degrees ---which means that we have to subtract

about 24 degrees as on date from “driktulya” longitudes to make

them “almighty” Lahiri longitudes! Those scholars and

translators are either deliberately misinterpreting even those interpolated

shlokas or they have actually no idea either about precession or the intricate

calculations of those interpolated shlokas either. Surprisingly, those

scholars are yet to tell us as to what the purpose of that ayanamsha in the Surya

Sidhanta is: ( i) Whether it is to be added to the surya sidhanta longitudes to

make them driktulya as on date, or (ii) whether it is to be subtracted from the

“driktulya longitudes” to make them tally with the Surya Sidhanta

longitudes, like “almighty” Lahir Ayanamsha or (iii) does it have

some other purpose!

As

such, it is necessary for a common man to know/understand that the Hindu

calendar has suffered not because of precession of equinoxes, but because Maya

the melchha made a fool of the Hindu community when he claimed that he had

obtained that planetary knowledge directly from Surya Bhagwan, which made

god-fearing Hindus reluctant to question the accuracy of the Surya Sidhanta data/details.

That

precession has absolutely nothing to do with planetary calculations of the

Surya Sidhanta will be evident from the fact that even after making ayanamsha

corrections or even precessional corrections to the longitudes of planets other

than the sun, those planets are far from being “Drik-tulya”

actually. This anybody can verify from Mahesh.exe program from

Hinducalendar forum.

So

we have to delink the Hindu calendar as much from precession jargon as from the

Surya Sidhanta!

Jai

Shri Ram!

A

K Kaul

 

 

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In USBrahmins , SIVA EXPORIUM <sivaexpo wrote:Should

we continue to celebrate all our festivals on wrong days?

 

Do

you know that we Hindus are celebrating all our festivals now on wrong dates?

Do you know that when you are said to be born under a particular star (

nakshatra), actually your birth star may be some thing else and not the one you

are supposed to have been born under? Do you realise that due to such a

discrepancy in taking correct star (nakshatra ), we are unable to select a

proper muhurth for any purpose?

 

Yes,

for well over 1400 years we failed to correct our calendars (panchangas), for

what is known as the precession of the equinoxes. Our panchangakars take

the length of the year to be 365.258756 days as given in the Surya siddhanta of

about 500 A.D., while the correct length of the tropical year, which alone can

be used according to the same siddhanta and modern astronomy, for

calindrical use, is 365.242196 days. The difference of .01656 days is partly

due to errors of observation and failure to recognize the precession of the

equinoxes. This modicum of difference has now grossed up to about 23.2

days, with the result the Indian solar year instead of starting on the day

following the vernal equinox ( vasantha vishu ) on March 22, starts now on

April 13 or 14.

 

The

Brahmin community, as practitioners of the Vedic religion of sanathana dharma,

has a duty to uphold Vedic values. If they follow dharma, every other

section of the Hindu community will automatically follow the path of dharma. It

is therefore the maiden duty of the Brahmins to help reform our time reckoning.

 

 

Have

you heard of Madhu, Mdhava, Sukra, Suchi, Nabhas, Nabhasya, Isa, Urja, Sahas,

Sahasya, Tapas and Tapasya? Yes, these are the names of the months as

prescribed in our Vedas (Yajur Veda Taittriya

samhita 4.4.11) But instead we use the Greek

origin translated terms such as Mesha, Rishaba etc. Should we not be

saying at least our samkalpas with the names that are given in the Vedas?

 

The

Vedas have mentioned 28 nakshatras including Abhijit. Each group of stars has a

different longitudinal span. Today we take 13 degree 20' span as an average per

star and calculate 2.25 stars for 30 degrees or a " Rashi "

(which is again a non-vedic adopted term). But when some stars are more than

double the average span and some less than half the average, how can you be

sure that you are born under the particular star on the present basis of

calculation?

 

Saka

samvatsara year is 1931 for English year 2009. On March 16, 2010

Prabhavati year " Krodhi " begins (Saka1932/Vikram Samvat 2067). But

due to the difference in the initial fixation (Saka 1876 –1954-55 AD --

was named 41 Plavanga in northern India and 28 Jaya in the south) there is a

difference of one year in the north and 13 years in the south. Actually the

sixty- year cycle is based on the transit of Jupiter. Jupiter should transit

the Aquarius (kumbha ) sign and simultaneously when the sun transits Mesha

(Vishu sampat ), the Kumbha mela is held in Haridwar, a very auspicious event

for the Hindus. This should have been on March 21, 2009. But alas it is going

to be celebrated in March 2010 when Jupiter is actually in Pisces (Meena

)! This is how all our rituals and festivals are now-a-days celebrated in

Bharatha varsha.

 

To

end all these anomalies and errors and for re-establishing sanathana

dharma on the correct path and unify the Hindu community of both the north and

south, a new panchanga has taken shape in the form of

 

" Sri

Mohan Krity Aarsh Tithi Patrak " .

 

Here

the months are Vedic, dates are called gatey( in the sense of the Sanskrit word

Gatih), nakshatras are as per their actual span, timings are given in hours and

minuts, (not nazhiga and vinazhiga), thithis are mentioned correctly as per

their duration. Corresponding English dates are also provided. Festivals

dates are mentioned correctly as per shastric formulations. " Sri

Mohan Krity Aarsh Tithi Patrak " is published by Acharya Sri

Darshaney Lokeshji of C-276, Gama-1, Greater Noida ( UP ) PIN-201310.

Phone:01206544628, +91 9412354036. darshaneylokesh

 

The

Tithi Patrak for the next year is getting ready and I would urge all members of

the Brahmin community especially the purohits. to make use of it in all our

samkalpas – vedic months names, thithi, vara, nakshatra etc. Please do

not use the Rasi names as it is not vedic. (there is no mention of any rasi or

planets other than the sun and moon , in any of our Vedas.)

 

Let

us forge a new erea in our chronology.