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I have found the mail worth reading about the job done by Mr. Amitabh to date

the happenings of Ramayana.

 

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Amitabh Amitabh <amitabh20a wrote: K_P_System

 

Amitabh Amitabh <amitabh20a

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:43 +0000 (GMT)

TIMING OF RAMAYANA

 

Reproduced below is extract of a mail I saw

during net

surfing.

 

" I would like to share a few factual details about the

life of Lord Rama through this mail. In case you are

interested in knowing about the actual dates of the

happening of various events during the life time of

Lord Rama - please continue to read. I have found the

precise dates of happening of various events during

the lifetime of Lord Ram from his birth to the age of

39 years when he returned from 14 year's exile.

Maharishi Valmiki, who wrote Ramayana, was

contemporary of Lord Ram. While narrating the events

of lifetime of Lord Ram, Valmiki has incidentally

mentioned the position of planets in the sky at

different places. For instance, the position of all

the planets (visible with unaided eye) has been

mentioned for the date of birth of Lord Ram. Later,

while mentioning that Lord Ram was sent to exile for

14 years on his 25th birthday, the position of planets

in the sky has been mentioned again for that day.

Moving forward, it has been stated that on the

amavasya (no moon day) of the 10th month of the 13th

year of his exile he fought a battle with Khar and

Dushan and on that day a solar eclipse was seen from

Panchwati. Not only a solar eclipse occurred but the

planets were arranged in the sky in a particular

manner. Going ahead, he mantions that six months later

when Ram killed Bali on the Amavasya of Ashad of the

14th year of exile, another solar eclipse was visible

in the morning sky and after five months when Hanuman

went to meet Sita at Lanka, a lunar eclipse was

witnessed in the evening. Besides these several other

planetary positions have also been mentioned at

different other places.

It is imporatant to know that planetary positions keep

changing every day in the sky and they do not repeat

for Lakhs of years!! Moreover, if we know the position

of all the planets in the sky, then they refer to one

and only one date in history.

The effort to provide dates to the planetary positions

mentioned in Ramayana and other vedic literature

began with legendary Bal Gangadhar Tilak in his well

known book 'Orion'. However, the efforts made so far

were based on manual computations. Since one

revolution of these planets is completed in a highly

complex fractional number, it is difficult to arrive

at the accurate day and time in history. But in late

90s many software were developed to track the position

of planets in the sky and with these software,

planets' position at any given point of time in the

sky can be known.

By using a powerful planetarium software, I found that

the planetary positions mentioned in Ramayana for the

date of birth of Lord Ram had occurred in the sky at

around 12.30 p.m. of 10th January 5114 BC. It was the

ninth day of the Shukla Paksh of Chaitra month too.

Moving forward, after 25 years of the birth of Lord

Ram, the position of planets in the sky tallies with

their description in Ramayana. Again, on the amavasya

of the 10th month of the 13th year of exile the solar

eclipse had indeed occurred and the particular

arrangement of planets in the sky was visible. ( Date

comes to 7th October 5077 BC). Even the occurrence of

subsequent two eclipses also tally with the respective

description in Valmiki Ramayan. (Date of Hanuman's

meeting Sita at Lanka was 12th September 5076 BC). In

this manner the entire sequence of the planetary

positions gets verified and all the dates can be

precisely determined.

The entire dating has been conducted objectively

because the software does not permit any manipulation

and the verses of Ramayana are also free of any

doubts. Leading scientists and those in this field

have appreciated this work. Since the entire sequence

tallies, it proves that all the observations in

theRamayana were actual recordings and not

conjectures.

The indologist suggested that I should have some

archaeological evidence in support of these dates

because for western historians these dates are too old

to be accepted! By god's grace I came across an

interesting archaeological evidence also and I give

it's details in forthcoming paras.

About a few months back NASA had photographed an

ancient bridge like structure between India and Sri

Lanka and stated that it appeared to be manmade. Most

of our historians and theologists jumped on the story

and said it was related to Lord Ram. Later on NASA

denied having made any statement as to how the bridge

got built etc. The enthusiasm died soon and nothing

could be conculded since we were trying to prove that

it was built millions of years ago.

Just analyse the situation. Suppose you build your

house with stones, which are millions of years old -

Does your house also becomes millions of years

old?Answer is a clear 'No'.

This was the mistake we were making while trying to

claim the ancient bridge and the antiquity of Lord Ram

to millions of years ago. Actually, the remains of the

bridge, which Lord Ram had built are still available

at a place called ' Chedu Karai' in Tamil Nadu.

'Chedu' means 'Setu' ( bridge) and 'Karai' means

'corner'. Interestingly, these remains of the bridge

are available at the depth of about 10 feet below the

water and these are about 1.5 kilometer inside the

sea.

We are all aware that the rise of sea level, ever

since the end of the last ice age (about 16000 BC), is

a continuous phenomenon. There is scientific unanimity

today that at the end of the last Ice age (which

lasted about 1,20,000 Years) the sea level was about

120 meters below the present level. After that, earth

entered the warming phase and Ice started melting. The

level of sea started rising. The most interesting

thing here is that the depth of sea between India and

Sri Lanka is just 6-13 meters. It is not more than 13

meters deep at any place. Hence, at the end of last

Ice age (16000 BC) India and Sri Lanka were connected

by land.

The sea level started to rise gradually and again the

scientific data suggests that it reached the level of

14 meters as late as 8000 Years ago. This clearly

means that what we call as Palk Strait today came into

existence only around 6000 BC. Water rose to a level

where it was seen above the shallow land between India

and Sri Lanka only around 6000 BC. The data is correct

to the extent of +/- 1500 years.

It is all available at the website of National

Geophysical Data Centre, USA.

Hence, if the narration in Ramayana is to be believed

that Rama's army crossed the sea to reach Lanka, it

has to be an event of Post 6000 BC era.

Further, the precise level at which the `remains of

the bridge' built by Lord Rama can be measured and

exact date of building the bridge can be ascertained

because the rate of rise of sea level is known now

very precisely.

All these findings have been published as a book

titled " Dating the era of Lord Ram " (By Rupa & Co,

Delhi). "

 

I do not wish to dispute the scientific corelation

with respect to Ice Age etc but want to draw attention

to Hindu division of Yugas. Duration of Kalyug is said

to be 4,32,000 years and earlier yugas were in the

ratio of 1:2:3:4 for Kalyug, Dwapar, Treta and Satyug

respectively. Under such circumstances, the timings do

not appear to be correct. Further, the four yugas

together (43,20,000 years) comprise of a Mahayuga

which happens to be the LCM of all planetary movement

through the cosmos.

 

If so, finally, what is the age of Vedas?

 

While I apologise for the length of this mail, views

of learned members are solicited.

 

Regards,

Amitabh

 

 

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