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Thursday, March 03, 2005

Posted 11:37 AM by Anurag

When did Ramayana take place?

Quite sometime back, I had a discussion with Anuradha about the period/dates when the events in Ramayan (Englicized: Ramayana) might have taken place. Later, she sent me the following info from an egroup on the subject. Apparently, it all happened just 7,000 years ago (5114 BC)!!

"This is Pushkar Bhatnagar from New Delhi.

I would like to share something which must interest many of you.

Perhaps, you might have heard that the actual dates for the various events that took place during the lifetime of Lord Ram have been discovered. This work has been completed by me by using a powerful planetarium software.

Maharishi Valmiki, who wrote Ramayana, was contemporary of Lord Ram and in his book, Valmiki has mentioned the position of planets in the sky at different points of time. For instance, the position of all the planets has been mentioned for the day when Lord Ram was born. Moving forward, he mentions that when Lord Ram turned 25 he was supposed to get the kingship of Ayodhya but was eventually exiled for 14 years. He mentions the position of planets again for the day he left for forests.

Later on, Valmiki mentions during the last quarter of the 13th year of his exile he fought a battle with Khar and Dushan and on that day a solar eclipse was seen. Not only the eclipse, the author also describes the position of planets in the sky on that day. Further ahead, six months later, another solar eclipse has been mentioned to mark the death of Bali at the hands of Lord Ram. Again, after about another six months when hanuman went to meet Sita at Lanka, a lunar eclipse has been described to have occurred. Besides these, everal other planetary positions heve also been mentioned spanning over these 39 years (25 years age + 14 years of exile).

With the help of the planetarium software, which generates the sky view on the desk top for any given period of time it has been found that the planetary positions mentioned for the date of birth of Lord Ram had occurred in the sky at around 12.30 p.m. of 10th January 5114 BC.

Not only this the position of planets after the 25 years of the birth of Ram tallies exactly with their description in Ramayana. The software shows that the solar eclipse had indeed occurred during the last quarter of the 13th year of exile and even the position of the planets were also the same as described. Not only this even the subsequent two eclipses had actually occured at the specified dates. In this manner the entire sequence of the planetary positions gets verified and all the dates can be precisely determined.

The entire dating has been conducted objectively beacuse the software does not permit any manipulation and the verses of Ramayana are also free of any doubts. I have substantiated the findings with the help of archaeological evidences also which clearly show that Lord Ram had walked on earth about 7118 years ago from today.

All of you, who want to know more about this work may please reply at Pushkarbhatnagar AT hotmail.com and seek information / clarifications."

2 comments

Comments:

Your notes / article on the date of Ramayan is stupid.

You have written / re-cycled these articles of half-baked western scholars, without any understanding of astrology.

Please be informed that ANY (I repeat ANY) planet formation will re-occur if you keep going back / forward over reasonable period of time, say within 15,000 years. This is because of the fixed rotational cycles of planets. This is a simple mathematical rule.

Therefore, It only proves that Ramayana could have occured before 5,000 years or 20,000 years or 35,000 years or 50,000 years or before or before. I am sure you get my point.

We have lot of proofs that Ramayana had INDEED OCCURED IN HISTORY. (For example, have a look at the NASA's picture of the bridge between India and Srilanka. It is man-made and no-one knows which king built that in history except Rama)

Therefore, I suggest that you cancel this half-baked guess-work and go back to praying Ram

Regards

Jayaram

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ஜயராமன் : March 30, 2005 5:29 PM

I wish I had seen this comment earlier. Let me ask my mathematician friend two things:

1. Work out the possiblity of repeatition of planetary combination on the navmi of Shukla Paksh of Chaitra month? That is only one out of 365 days and then tell me when will the combination repeat.

2. The only method of finding repetition time is by taking LCM. That is simple for integers. What happens when the period of rotation of planets run into 8th place of a decimal.

I shall wait for a response for taking the discussion further.

regards

Pushkar

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Anonymous : October 14, 2005 2:22 PM