Fwd: ‘Mahabharata War Occurred in 3067 BC’

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This is the press release issued on the second day of the conference:

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

‘Mahabharata War Occurred in 3067 BC’

‘Calculus is India’s Gift to the West’

 

New

Delhi January 10: A well-known Indian physicist has used advanced

planetarium software and astronomical data detailed in the slokas of

Mahabharata to conclusively date the ancient Indian epic to 3067 BCE.

 

Speaking

at the ongoing International Conference on Indian History,

Civilisation

and Geopolitics 2009 (ICIH-2009) here, professor Narahari Achar said

that most of the previous attempts at astronomical dating of the

famous

epic made the critical error of equating the Sanskrit word

“Graha†with

a planet.

 

“However, Graha actually meant not only a planet but

any heavenly object moving through the sky that can ‘grasp,’ such

as a

comet or asteroid,†he said. “Once we understand this, all

apparent

confusion and contradiction in the planetary positions given in the

Mahabharata disappears.â€

 

Though the epic has been variously

dated from 5000 BCE to 1000 BCE by historians, this is the first time

that a scholar has taken into account the movement of planets

excluding

the comets to reproduce by simulation the astronomical references

given

in the Mahabharata.

 

“The year 3067 BCE arrived at by this

method is consistent with the Hindu tradition and correlates perfectly

with the time references given in Rigveda and Puranas for the epic,â€

Prof. Narhari added.

 

In his speech at the conference, Professor

C.K. Raju revealed that calculus was an Indian invention that was

transmitted by Jesuit priests to Europe from Cochin in the second half

of 16th century. “Indian infinite series has been known to British

scholars since at least 1832, but no scholar tried to establish the

connection with the calculus attributed to Newton and Leibnitz,†he

said.

 

Dr. Raju’s 10-year research that included archival work

in Kerala and Rome was published in a book “Cultural Foundations of

Mathematics.†It established that the Jesuit priests took

trigonometric

tables and planetary models from the Kerala mathematicians of the

Aryabhata school and exported them to Europe starting around 1560 in

connection with the European navigational problem.

 

“When the

Europeans received the Indian calculus, they couldn’t understand it

properly because the Indian philosophy of mathematics is different

from

the Western philosophy of mathematics. It took them about 300 years to

fully comprehend its working. The calculus was used by Newton to

develop his laws of physics,†Dr. Raju added. Ironically, some

British

scholars claimed credit for this research despite being warned against

plagiarizing Professor Raju’s work.

 

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