Written by London swaminathan
Date: 11 JUNE 2018
Time uploaded in London – 18-16 (British Summer Time)
Post No. 5100
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I was reading the book ‘Dating the Era of Lord Ram’ by Pushkar Bhatnagar, 2004, Rs.395
He has concluded that Rama lived around 5100 BCE on the astronomical evidence in the Valmiki Ramayana. First let me give his conclusions and then his introduction. It is a book with sixty colour star maps. His conclusions are
The archaeological evidence suggesting the date of Saraswati Sindhu region sites up to 8000 BCE,
astronomical dating of some of the verses of the Rig Veda to 6500 BCE,
the Astronomical dating of Ramayana at around 5100 BCE,
date of composition of the last Mandala of the Rig Veda around 5000 BCE,
strong evidences suggesting the traditional date of 3137 BCE as the date of Mahabharata,
probable date of Puranas well after the beginning of the Kaliyuga and the drying up of the Saraswati River around 1900 BCE
makes highly agreeable and logically acceptable timeline of our civilization.
His introduction in the book gives the following interesting details:
“The Ramayana clearly mentions that a lunar eclipse had occurred on the day Hanuman visited Lanka in search of Sita. On examination of the sequence of events narrated in the book
(Ramayana) I had concluded that it was the full moon day of either the month of Margasirsh (Maarkazi in Tamil) or Paush (Thai in Tamil)of the last year of exile (5076 BCE). However, I had no means to verify whether a lunar eclipse had actually occurred about 7000 years or not.
My belief and understanding was that the software I was using did not have the capability of showing the occurrence of lunar eclipse. I browsed the web for any other software. These efforts bore no fruit. For almost five years I had desperately wished and prayed that somehow I could verify and demonstrate the occurrence of Lunar eclipse so that my findings become complete in all respects.
Since no solution could be found to this puzzle and being completely helpless in this regard, I submitted my manuscript to the publishers for publication in the month of October 2003. (He just mentioned that he could not verify the lunar eclipse in the manuscript).
After a few days, I read in the newspapers that a lunar eclipse was to occur on the morning of 9 November 2003 and it would be visible from India. Late in the evening of 8th, without any specific hope of finding a solution, intuitively I felt like examining the position of the sun and the moon during the eclipse due to occur the next day, though the software. My intention was to compare the positions of the sun and the moon during the eclipse of 9 th. However as soon as I entered the time of the occurrence of the eclipse in the software I was surprised to find that the software was displaying the occurrence of the eclipse very precisely. Without wasting a moment, I entered the date 12 September 5076 BCE. (full moon day of lunar month Margasirsh, which according to me the day Hanuman visited Lanka.
With a pounding heart, I started examining the position of the moon. And then came the stamp of Divine confirmation! The software demonstrated that a lunar eclipse had indeed occurred that evening – exactly at the time when it had been described in the Ramayana. I could not believe five year long hopelessness was transformed into triumph in just a matter of five minutes! “
-Pushkar Bhatnagar10 May 2004
This shows the author’s long and sincere research into the date of Ramayana.
–Subham–
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