Battle of Kuruksetra/Ayanamsa

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Dear Luis, Visti, Jaan and others,

 

Namaste.

 

Thank you very much for this valuable information.

> " ... the day following 1582 October 4 (Julian calendar) is 1582 October 15

>(Gregorian calendar). "

>

>So the difference is by 10 days (note that the next day from Octuber 4 must

>be October 5. Then, the difference between October 15 and October 5 are 10

>days).

 

I knew about the change of Julian calender to Gregorian calender to be in

1582, I didn't know however that they change the date as well. I really was

wondering about this. On a Spanish vaisnava calender my friend brought, I

also saw the date for Karkata sankranti mentioned on 5th of July as well as

16th of July. Note that it would have been July 15th before the year 2000.

So that gives us a difference of 10 days as well.

 

Now, what is the essential difference between Julian calender and Gregorian

calender? Why they changed it that much? Well, the difference is that Julian

calender includes an extra day (Feb 29th) every 4 years (because actual

length of the year is 365,25 days), except for the century changes, that

means not on 100, 200, 300 etc... Now the Gregorian calender has adjusted

this, because it was observed that 365,25 days is not exactly correct (here

they found out about the factual existence of ayanamsa). Therefore on every

century change which can be divided by 400 they included an extra day also.

Therefore in 2000 we had a Feb 29th also. The fact that they changed the

calender for 10 days is actually the proof that I'm right in stating that

the yearly ayanamsa is 40 seconds.

 

They calculated the number of centuries back which can be divided by 400

until what they thought to be the start of civilization, i.o.w. the old

Egyptian culture which constructed the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, on which

Western astrologers base their calculations. This pyramid was constructed

about 4.700 years ago with the planetary information of the start of

Kali-yuga! Thuban in the sign of Dragon was at that time considered to be

the pole star. Take the time of 4.700 - 419 (years ago) = 4.281/400 = 10

days adjustment. In the year 1600 another extra day was added, as well as in

2000. Note that after 1600 the difference was 11 days, to match with the

increasing age of 4.400 years after the start of kali-yuga.

 

Now calculating backwards with the ayanamsa of 40 sec/year from the birth of

Christ at about 0 degree of Aries gives you the start of kali-yuga at about

4.700 years ago, in fact exactly 4.702. Calculating the amount of change in

400 years of ayanamsa with 40 sec/year, we get about 4 hours 25 minutes. As

such, it seems proper that every 2000 years there is an extra day on the

millenium change. In 2000 years there are 5 x 400 years and thus 5 x 4 hours

25 min. = 22 hours 5 min. Therefore the extra day is not added unless the

year can be divided by 400.

 

Any second thoughts?

 

Your sishya,

Dhira Krsna dasa