Fwd: Vedanga Jyotisha by Acharya Lagadha

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HinduCalendar , " Avtar Krishen Kaul " <jyotirved

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Abhinavagupta , Sunil Bhattacharjya wrote:

 

Sunil,

 

There is hardly anything new in your post by way of substance:

 

* The points are made have been labored over and over again in previous

posts...you claim to teach others but seem to have no respect for your audience.

 

* Why forward to this list your personal squabbles with Shri Mehrotra, who is

not a member of this list and cannot respond?

 

* You swear by the Pur⮡s, the prerequisite 5th (for understanding the) Veda,

which are largely about iconic (temple) worship, which Dayananda condemned as

contrary to Vedic practice. My teacher Rameshwar Jha described to me in some

detail how, having lost his scholarly debate with the brahmin orthodoxy of

Benares, he was obliged to leave the sacred city.

 

* Just because the Hindus already knew (some form of) astrology before does not

necessarily imply that they did not borrow new concepts and schemas from the

Greeks (as opposed to making them more receptive).

 

If this futile controversy were not so symptomatic (for the patient bystanders

here), on both sides, of the 'closure' of the brahmin mind, I'd have already

suspended posting privileges long ago.

 

Sunthar

 

 

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Dear members,

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1) Shri Mehrotra can contact?Indian National Science Academy. Or he can place an

order on a bookseller for the book. If he thinks he must have the book let him

get it.

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2a) Rashis are not paroksha as rashis are mentioned in Purana.

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2b) Mehrotra is?obsessed with Wilkinson's Parokshya knowledge.?Why is he

hesitant to ask??Wilkinson?directly.

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3 & 4) Why does Mehrotra not draw?his own conclusion??He appears to be?an

intelligent person?

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5) How can?one generalise that each and everything in the Puranas is suspect?

Does he?think Dayanand saraswati tried to?destroy the sanctity of the Vedic

literature? It is true that Dayanand Saraswati met Ramkrishna Paramhansa and

later on Ramakrishna Paramhansa opined that Dayananda Saraswati was very proud

of his knowledge. But I do not doubt?the honesty and integrity of Dayanada

Saraswati.

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6) I am not asking anybody to believe or not to believe in astrology. That is

beside the point.?Nobody should sidetrack?the main issue. The purpose of my

writings are to show that Astrology was known to the Indians from the times of

the Mahabharata war and possibly even earlier. Manu said that the Kings have to

consult Jyotishis. In Mahabharata also there is mention of Astrology. So

according to me Astrology?was known to the Indians and the Indians did not

import Astrology from the Greeks. I have nothing more to say. One can take it or

leave it.

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Sincerely,

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Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

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--- On Thu, 6/25/09, kk.mehrotra <kk.mehrotra@> wrote:

 

 

kk.mehrotra <kk.mehrotra@>

[WAVES-Vedic] Re: Vedanga Jyotisha by Acharya Lagadha

WAVES-Vedic

Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:12 AM

 

 

Dear members,

 

The email address at which this post was sent to INSA does not exist and the

mail was received back.

 

1. I, therefore, request Dr. Sunil Bhattacharjya again to give the full address

of the website wherefrom he is supposed to have downloaded the Vedanga Jyotisha

by Acharya Lagadha, with the fifth mantra showing Mina rashi.

 

2. I also request Dr. Bhattacharjya to pl. inform as to how his parokshya

knowledge about Indian Rashis, which he calls sidereal, in the Vedas can be

correct but the parokshya knowledge of Dr. Wilkinson that it is only Tropical

rashis in the Vedas can be wrong.

 

3. Thirdly, if the Chhandogya and Brihadarnyak Upanishadas say that Puranas are

fifth Veda, does it not mean that Puranas existed prior to the Chhandogya and

Brihadarnyaka Upanishada? And since both these Upanishadas are an integral part

of the Vedas, it means that the Puranas existed even before the Vedas.

4. What is the actual position?

 

5. It appears, therefore, that Swami Dayananda Saraswati was right when he said

that there are additions and alterations in quite a few Puranas and may be in

some of the Vedic lore also.

 

6. And since Swami Dayananda Saraswati was a Vedic scholar with both paroksha

and pratyaksha knowledge of all the shastras, including the Vedas, if he has

advised not to fall in the trap of jyotishis, whom he calls Popejis, why should

we not listen to his advice, even if most of us are non-Aryasamajis?

 

Thanks in advance.

K K Mehrotra

 

WAVES-Vedic, K K Mehrotra wrote:

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> Sir,

 

> I have been informed by one of the members from WAVES-VEDIC forum that Vedanga

Jyotisha by Acharya Lagadha is available at your website.

 

> Could you kindly give me the address of that site wherefrom I can download it.

 

> Is the book available with you as a hard copy.? If yes, what is the price and

how can it be ordered.

 

> Thanking you,

> Yours

> K. K. Mehrotra

>

 

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