YUGAS vs yugas

[Guest guest]

Traditionally YUGAS have been known to span much longer periods of time than

what Swami Yukteshwar Giri wrote in his book " Holy Science " and tied the yuga

cycles to the precessional cycle?

 

How are the two cycles connected, if they indeed are?

 

By the way, this book is what started the reference to " Yukteshwar Ayanamsha "

which many hastily understand as being an ayanamsha that Yukteshwar Giri ji

determined/calculated etc. Interestingly, Raman Ayanamsha is almost identical to

the value given in The Holy Science with the more modern value of annual rate of

precession applied. Modern astronomers believe that the annual rate of

precession is not a constant but varies cyclically.

 

RR

[Guest guest]

Precession is shift of equinoxes in an circular fashion which is known as

Chakraayana in teaditional Jyotisha. It had nothing to do with ayanamsha in any

ancient text. This definition of ayanamsha is a modern concept. Ancient

definition is pendulum like motion of the Bhachakra (orbit of nakshatras which

is at a distance double of Saturn and less than that of Uranus), which creates

an apparent (not real) pendulum like trepidation of the equinoxes within a

maximum limit of 27 degrees. Bhachakra does not contain any material entity and

therefore it is impossible to test physically whether it librates or not. Those

who refuse to accept non-physical entities like Bhachakra should neglect

ayanamsha and Bhachakra too, instead of changing the definition of ayanamsha

which was a mischief of Colebrooke, Burgess, etc. We have no right to change

definitions of ancient terms ; either accept them or reject them.

 

These western commentators spread a false view that precession was unknown to

ancient Indians and that is why they believed in an " unscientific " concept of

trepidating ayanamsha. But I have mentioned many times in these forums, and

there is a detailed article on jyotirvidya website, which shows that ancient

Indians had a corrct formula for computing precession which was far more

accurate than that known to Newton. But ancient Indians did not use precession

for computing ayanamsha.

 

-VJ

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Rohiniranjan <jyotish_vani

 

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 4:46:58 AM

YUGAS vs yugas

 

 

 

 

 

Traditionally YUGAS have been known to span much longer periods of time than

what Swami Yukteshwar Giri wrote in his book " Holy Science " and tied the yuga

cycles to the precessional cycle?

 

How are the two cycles connected, if they indeed are?

 

By the way, this book is what started the reference to " Yukteshwar Ayanamsha "

which many hastily understand as being an ayanamsha that Yukteshwar Giri ji

determined/calculat ed etc. Interestingly, Raman Ayanamsha is almost identical

to the value given in The Holy Science with the more modern value of annual rate

of precession applied. Modern astronomers believe that the annual rate of

precession is not a constant but varies cyclically.

 

RR