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poeureka (October 6, 2008 at 1:21 am)
I wonder if he practices vegetarianism....
Saraswathiputra (October 3, 2008 at 6:41 pm)
bikassb,ancient India means it includes Nepal also.
bikassb (October 2, 2008 at 10:54 pm)
hey man if buddha was born in india who was born in tilaurakot lumbini nepal
Saraswathiputra (September 28, 2008 at 6:19 pm)
The medieval Kashmiri historian Kalhana claimed that the previous cycle had started in 3076 BC, and the present one in AD 525. J.E. Mitchiner has suggested that the beginning of the Saptarshi reckoning was one more cycle earlier, in 6676 BC: "We may conclude that the older and original version of the Era of the Seven Rsis commenced with the Seven Rsis in Krttika in 6676 BC, used a total of 28 Naksatras, and placed the start of the Kali Yuga in 3102 BC
Saraswathiputra (September 28, 2008 at 6:18 pm)
The Puranic king-list as known to Greek visitors of Chandragupta court in the 4th century BC or to later Greco-Roman India-watchers, started in 6776 BC.Pliny wrote that the Indians date their first king, "Liber Pater", to "6,451 years and 3 months" before Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC),while Arrian puts the dynastic list at 6,042 + 300 + 120 = 6,462 years before Sandrokottos (Chandragupta) to whom a Greek embassy sent in 314 BC.Both indications add up to a date, give or take a year, of 6776 BC
Saraswathiputra (September 28, 2008 at 6:15 pm)
Now,I like to go for writing or information from foreign sources which are primary ones and are unbiased.These foreign sources,that is of Greeks who visited King ChandraGupta Maurya as Ambassadors and given by sources existed 2300 years before.This is very much confirm accurate recent archeological discoveries.
Saraswathiputra (September 27, 2008 at 5:53 pm)
And one important thing here to remember about the authenticity and uniformity in Astrological references of Vedas and later Sanskrit texts is quite admirable.There is no contradiction in references which clearly indicate continuous presence of Vedic seers physically to note those celestial combinations.For example I have given below the reference of Brahmana literature which gives later correct date than Vedas.The astro details are accurate.There is no doubt on it.Modern discoveries confirm it.
Saraswathiputra (September 27, 2008 at 5:46 pm)
It may have taken place even before the 23rd century BC: maybe only the asterism around Regulus had reached the solstitial axis but not yet the star itself. Most likely, then, this reference to a Magha solstice confirms that the Bra and Sutra literature including the Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (annex Shulba) dates to the late 3rd millennium BC, at the height of the Harappan civilization.
Saraswathiputra (September 27, 2008 at 5:45 pm)
However, it is very easy to calculate that Regulus, currently at almost exactly 60 Degree from the solstitial axis, was on that axis about 60 x 71 years ago, i.e. in the 23rd century BC, Though we must indeed allow for an inexactitude of up to 15 Degree, equivalent to about 1100 years, the Magha solstice described is much more likely to have been in 2200 BC than in 1100 BC.
Saraswathiputra (September 27, 2008 at 5:43 pm)
A reference to a solstice in Magha in the Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (as well as in the Kaushitaki Brahmana 19:3), to which the Shulba Sutra is an appendix. Magha is the asterism around the star Regulus. Hence we do not hesitate to place the Vedic rituals, or more exactly, rituals exactly like them, far back of 1700 BC., elements of geometry found in Egypt and Babylonia stem from a ritual system of the kind described in the Sulvasutras. |
