[Jaya Jagannath] Battle of Kuruksetra

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Dear Narasimha,

 

Pranam. Jaya Jagannatha!

 

>Kali yuga is supposed to have commenced in 3102 BC and the war is

>supposed to have taken place 36 years before that. All this is

>controversial, but the current accepted (?) date for Mahabharat war is

>3138 BC.

 

According to my latest calculations, this seems far too early for having

been the actual date of the Great War. Srimad-Bhagavatam mentions that the

kali-yuga started when the line from Kratu-Pulaha in the sign of Ursa Minor

(correction: in my earlier message I had written Ursa Major, this should

actually be Ursa Minor, the Saptarsi constellation) is connected with the

star of Magha, and this about 50 years before the birth of Maharaja Pariksit

(see the verses from 12th canto I posted earlier). After 1.200 years this

line moves into Purvashadha (a second mistake I made in the previous texts:

I confused Purvashadha with Purva Phalguni). Now when the line form these 2

stars is drawn north to south, we can go 2 directions. One direction points

towards Magha, which is the start of the kali-yuga, the other direction will

have been between Capricorn-Aquarius. The line also doesn't move clockwise

as I mistook before, but counterclockwise (as ayanamsa goes

counterclockwise). Then the next moving into Purvashadha is the other end of

the line, and the time between is 1.200 years as the Srimad-bhagavatam

explains. Now we have 2 ends, which represent one half of the line; if we

were to calculate a full circumambulation, we should multiply by 2 = 2.400

years, but this means a distance of 33 degrees 20 min. so one rasi is indeed

covered by 2.160 years and the full precession circle is 25.920 years, thus

giving us a yearly ayanamsa of exactly 50 sec. (not as I wrote before,

because I had confused the 2 naksatras).

 

So considering this, I have a hard time accepting that the kali-yuga and the

Battle of Kuruksetra can have been that long time ago. Look at where the

ayanamsa has come now, it's in Pisces about 23 degrees depending what

ayanamsa you're using. So the line between Kratu-Pulaha (the two upper stars

of Ursa Minor) points to Gemini at about the same degrees backwards. That

gives us 1 rasi and about 23 degrees, multiplying that by 2.160 years per

rasi = about 3.300 years ago, or around 1.700 BC. There were subha-krit

years in 1.277-8 BC and 1.337-8 BC (I have a book where it mentions two

subha-krit years after each other on 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 our time).

 

I got a quite close line-up of planets in 1.277 BC in month of Dec. using an

astronomy program which calculates exact planetary positions up to 30.000

BC. Maybe? I'll have to do some more research for the other dates.

 

Do you have any indications for Maharaja Pariksits birth? Or for Maharaja

Nanda mentioned in the 12th canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam?

 

Your sishya,

Dhira Krsna dasa