Astronomical Dating of The Mahabharata War

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A brilliant attempt to Scientifically investigate in to the exact Date when the Great Mahabharata War began. Hailed as "a Significant contribution to our Knowledge" it is the Author's Thesis for his Doctorate in Sanskrit (Ph.D.) in The Andhra University, Waltair.

Using the latest Scientific techniques including Radio-Carbon Dating and Astronomical Dating the book unravels the Mystic passages in the Sanskrit Epic of Mahabharata and arrives at the exact dating when the War had commenced!

Containing a valuable Review of all the Research Material so far, on the subject, the book also contains the History of the Tradition of the Hindu "Panchanga" (Calendar) from the Vedic Age till Aryabhatta: it includes also a Survey of Geology, Zoology, Paleontology Climatology, etc. about the gigantic Shift in the Earth's Axis and the rise of the Himalayas, fall of the seas, and even the global Cataclysm which altered the Calendars of the world, from Egypt to India.

Hailed as "Literary Volcano" this book throws up multi-disciplinary Research on the Date of Kali Yuga- Beginning which shakes up the existing Chronology of India. It also contains a rare Copper Plate Grant of King Janamejaya, the grandson of Yudhishtira granted at the time of the "Snake Sacrifice" (Sarpa yaga): Dr. Vedavyas research work is "bound to be a best seller". H.H. Dalai Lama's Foreword is an added attraction!

A masterly Research that makes Chronology, a Science - and not a literary surmise!

Dr. Vedavyas comes from a family of traditional Vedic scholars for seven generations. He received early Initiation into Vedas, Yoga, Astronomy(Jyothisha) and Sanskrit and holds a Masters Degree in Zoology with specialization in Marine Biology. He was the Professor in Zoology in the Loyola College Until he was selected into the prestigious "Indian Administrative Service" (IAS) by All India competition in 1959. Working as a Senor Govt. Official for 27-years he worked on this book as a Thesis for Ph.D., in Sanskrit.

He was on a Lecture Tour of U.S.A. in 1985 speaking at The United Nations also at Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles besides major universities in U.S.A. in the "Lost Verses of Bhagawad Gita" which he discovered besides the rare find of the "Copper Plate Grant of King Janamejaya" of Mahabharata times dating to 3065 B.C.

Dr. Vedavyas is a rare discoverer and Author who had published 108 books in Vedas, Yoga, Astronomy, Hindu Religion and his Masterpiece entitled "Hinduism in the Space Age" with a Foreword by Dr. Karan Singh a Minister under Mrs. Indira Gandhi former Prime Minister of India.

Dr. Vedavyas working for to spread the Wisdom of the Rishies to the whole of mankind freely without any restriction. Dr. Vedavyas heads over 120-Yoga Centers in India, built over 4-Temples and is an accomplished Painter Sculptor and Astrologer whom three of the Presidents of India consulted. Dr. Vedavyas has a wide circle of Students and Yoga disciples.

He is working on the Scientific Dating of the Buddha, at the instance of H.H. Dalai Lama.

Ours has been the age of great changes. In the field of space travel man has travelled to other planets. In the field of Physics man has split the atom, which was for a long time since the days of Dalton, held as indestructible. In the field of Biology too, the reversal of sexes has been witnessed. And also major transplantation of organs including the heart and kidney, has been registered.

Great and diverse have been these sudden and basic changes in man's thinking in different fields, but still, the greatest change has been in man's Thinking itself! Nothing shocks a Civilization like a severe jolt to its own pet ideas, fondly held and believed as the so called "accepted theory" long held as unquestionable truth.

Used even though, we are, to an age of changes and mutations-still, a radical shake-up to our ways of thinking jolts mankind's age-old beliefs, particularly when these pertain to Mankind's early history. For, the dating of many ancient civilizations is generally believed to be gospel truth.

Gospel truth indeed! For, most of the dates of early histories of ancient nations like Egypt, China and India have been 'fixed' with the help of the Gospels in the sense that the date of Creation of the Bible propounded by Bishop Usher in the last country of 4004 B.C. formed the dogma which conditioned the thinking of early historians like Sir William Jones, Max Mueller, Weber and Buhler, to quote a few. No doubt 'radicals' like Professor Jacobi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak did exist, who even in those days attempted to fix the dates of ancient scriptures on a pragmatic basis with the help of Astronomical dating. But they have been only radicals: nothing more! One is almost amused to see the elaborate attempts by other scholars to tone down the effect of the work of these scholars in shaking the foundations of the Gospel based Chronology.

The attempts were to soften the blows, the impact of the discoveries and to water down the effect of the disturbing discoveries, rather than to wake up to the universal fact-a general inadequacy of the basis for a correct chronology. Chronology as a Scientific discipline was long overdue.

But the time has come, it appears, as it must sooner or later when new facts are everywhere discovered by Scientific Research, which are everyday dynamiting the basis of the once traditionally held dates and orthodox Chronologies, to which detailed references are made in the last chapter.

In the past when the world's various Nations and Religions were more self- contained they were each content to recount their own histories in their own context, without any common mutual reference.

In this modern age, however, as we learn more about each other, a need has arisen to produce a method for objectively dating Religious and Historical events.

For example, even within the Buddhist tradition, there are a number of varying estimates as to the dates of Lord Buddha's Life and teaching, which are a source of scholarly dispute.

Thus, it would be very helpful if a Scientific method could be found to objectively Date historical events so we could clarify our understanding of their interrelationships and sharpen our Chronological perspective.

The Author is to be commended for his work in this direction, as described in this book 'Astronomical Dating of the Mahabharata' and it is to be hoped that such a method of Dating may become widely accepted for the benefit of all.