Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on October 23, 2008
This site contains my work and ideas. Wherever information has been gathered from other sources, they have been acknowledged and a link has been provided to that source. Data, facts and views have been gathered with a view to arrive at the Truth! The conclusions and conjectures are mine and mine alone.
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on April 30, 2009
It is natural to wonder what kind of astronomical instruments were used by the ancient Indians to achieve this high level of astronomical knowledge. I am collecting that information. See Link below.
Astronomical Instruments : Gola bandha Gola Yantra
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on April 25, 2009
Karthika (Skanda) was raised by the Krttikas. You can see them all tomorrow. In English they are called the Pleiades.
Quoted from : http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24apr_eveningsky.htm?list25013
“On Sunday evening, the crescent Moon, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster (Kruthika - Krthika - Krithika nakshatram) will gather for a three-way conjunction in the western sky. It’s a must-see event. The show begins before the sky fades to black. The Moon pops out of the twilight first, an exquisitely slender 5% crescent surrounded by cobalt blue. The horns of the crescent cradle a softly-glowing image of the full Moon. That is Earthshine—dark lunar terrain illuminated by sunlight reflected from Earth.Shortly after the Moon appears, Mercury materializes just below it. The innermost planet has emerged from the glare of the sun for its best apparition of the year in late April—perfect timing for a sunset encounter with the Moon. To the naked eye, Mercury looks like a pink 1st-magnitude star. The planet itself is not pink; it only looks that way because it has to shine through dusty lower layers of Earth’s atmosphere. A backyard telescope pointed at Mercury reveals a tiny fat crescent. The innermost planet has phases like the Moon! Next, do nothing. Spend some quiet moments absorbing the view. As the twilight deepens, your eyes will dark-adapt and—voilà! There are the Pleiades.”
Karthikeya’s Nakshatram From: Nakshatras, Masas, Specialities : Krittika Nakshatra (dedicated to Agni) is defined as a set of six stars. Bharateeya tradition has it that Kaartikeya, is surrounded by five Apsaras. This set of stars is identified by classical European system as Plaeidis. Brightest amongst them is called Alcyone by Arabs. If a single star has to be identified as representing Krittika Nakshatra, best candidate is 25hAries/SAO-76199/HD-23630/ AlCyone. Arundhati Nakshatra (though not a part of the 27 day pointing stars) is near the Krittitka. It is said to be the eighth star in the cluster Krittika.
Krttika Nakshatram near Moon and Orion
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on April 19, 2009
Quoted From : http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/dec252005/2174.pdf
“It is stated that Bhisma died on Maga S 8 on the winter solstice day, i.e. at the start of Uttarayana. At present, this tithi occurs between 20 January and 20 February, which differs from the date of winter solstice, 22nd December, by 29 to 60 days. This difference is caused by the precession of the earth’s axis around the ecliptic poles in the retrograde ircuit in 25,725 years, as stated earlier. It causes a slow backward shift of equinoxes and solstices with respect to the nakshatras and the lunar months at the rate of one day in 71 years. As it would take 2060 to 4260 years to produce a shift of 29 to 60 days, the date of Bhisma’s death and consequently that of the Mahabharata war would be 1200 ± 1000 BC. This date can be pushed back to the Krtttikâ epoch of 2300 BC, if we put the beginning of Dhanisthâ exactly opposite to Maghâ (Alpha Leonis).”
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on April 12, 2009
Greeks believed that Titan gave birth to Selene, the moon goddess. Princeton researchers Belbruno and Gott hypthesise that 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet the size of Mars crashed into the earth, resulting in the creation of the moon. NASA is searching for it.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/09apr_theia.htm?list25013
Where did the enormous protoplanet come from?
Belbruno and Gott believe it came from a Sun-Earth Lagrange point.
Sun-Earth Lagrange points are regions of space where the pull of the Sun and Earth combine to form a “gravitational well.” The flotsam of space tends to gather there much as water gathers at the bottom of a well on Earth. 18th-century mathematician Josef Lagrange proved that there are five such wells in the Sun-Earth system: L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5 located as shown in the diagram below.
Lagrange Points of the Earth and the Sun : Courtesy NASA
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 21, 2009
It is said that Vishnu (the galactic centre) lies on Adi Sesha (That which is left over (sesha) from the beginning, Adi), in the Ksheera Sagara ( the milky way).
Ksheera sagara mathanam means churning of the ocean of milk. The Devas on one side and the Asuras on the other side pulled first one way and then another on a snake wound around the Manthara (Manthana means churning - Manthara is the stick used for churning?) mountain. The arms of the milky way, look to me like the two ends of the snake-rope that was used for churning.
As a result of this churning emerged all kinds of treasures, Amrutham (non-death) being the final wonder. Chandra (the moon) and Lakshmi (light) are easy to understand. What were the others. This ksheera sagara mathanam is connected in some way with Sivarathri. Because Siva swallowed the halahalam or poison on that day and Saivates fast out of concern. What could be the halahalam and what could be the amrtam?
Today we do not see the KalpaVrksham (the tree that grants wishes) or kamadhenu (wish giving cow) as a pattern in the stars, but could that explain them?
Vasishtha is one of the stars of the Sapta Rishi Mandala (Great Bear), he was said to be present at the Ksheera Sagara Mathanam.
I need to understand a little more astronomy and how the sky looks at night over the course of the year, to explain this better. bangalore skies are not very co-operative, so I shall have to look at charts or something,
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 17, 2009
An important factor to consider in dating the Vedas is Geography. See: http://ancientindians.wordpress.com/saraswathi-river/
What emerges from a geological analysis is that the Sarswathi which flowed in full form around 9000 BC started drying up from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC. The geological events that contributed to the rise of the Himalayas, also cut off the the tributaries, major and minor, to Saraswati and the march to oblivion commenced around 3000 BC.
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 17, 2009
Everyone cheerfully declares that 78 AD is the zero year of Salivahana Sakha (Saka Era) but No One tells me how they concluded this. Some quote Whitaker but I could not find his rationale either!
The rationale is important to me. Please Let me know if you find out before I do.
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 16, 2009
Varahamihira said that Mahapadmananda ascended the throne 1050 years after Pariskshit was born. How he decided this was… Vishnu Purana states that the Saptarshis, which are supposed to move @ one Nakshatra for every 100 years (IV.24) had moved 10 Nakshatras from Magha to Purvashada during this interval, between the war (Parikshit’s birth) and Mahapadma Nanda’s accession, which therefore comes to 10×100 = 1000 years. Aryabhatta said that The line of the Saptarshis intersected the middle of Magha Nakshatra in the year of Kaliyuga 1910. If we combine these statements., we can come to the conclusion that Bharata war took place in Kaliyuga 1910 as per Aryabhatta’s reckoning, since Parikshit was born soon after the war ended.
That means that Markandeya’s Kaliyuga Zero Point Year (Krishna’s death) - 27 = (Bharata War) = Aryabhatta’s Zero Point Kaliyuga Year + 1910. (Pariskshit’s birth).
This means that Krishna’s death took place in Aryabhatta’s Zero Point Kaliyuga Year + 1910 + 27.
It would also mean that when Aryabhatta corrected the calendars, the Bharata war was pushed back 1937 years, by any later scholars who assumed that the zero points of Markandeya kaliyuga and Aryabhatta Kaliyuga were the same.
This does not explain the Unique eclipse pair combination just before the Bharata War!
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 16, 2009
“ततो यज्ञे समाप्ते तु ऋतूनां षट्समत्ययु:।
ततश्च द्वादशे मासे चैत्रे नावमिके तिथौ।।1.18.8।।
नक्षत्रेऽदितिदैवत्ये स्वोच्चसंस्थेषु पञ्चसु।
ग्रहेषु कर्कटे लग्ने वाक्पताविन्दुना सह।।1.18.9।।
प्रोद्यमाने जगन्नाथं सर्वलोकनमस्कृतम्।
कौसल्याऽजनयद्रामं सर्वलक्षणसंयुतम्।।1.18.10।।
विष्णोरर्धं महाभागं पुत्रमैक्ष्वाकुवर्धनम्।
तत: then, यज्ञे when sacrifice, समाप्ते was completed, ऋतूनाम् of seasons, षट् six, समत्ययु: were spent, तत: then, द्वादशे मासे in twelfth month, चैत्रे in Chaitra month, नावमिके तिथौ on the nineth day of the rising Moon, अदितिदैवत्ये presided by Aditi as devata, नक्षत्रे when the star (Punarvasu)was in ascendent, पञ्चसु ग्रहेषु and the five planets (Sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus), स्वोच्चसंस्थेषु in their own exalted places, कर्कटे लग्ने in Karkata Lagna, वाक्पतौ when Brihaspati, इन्दुना सह along with Moon, प्रोद्यमाने was rising, कौसल्या Kausalya, जगन्नाथम् lord of the entire universe, सर्वलोकनमस्कृतम् bowed to by all the worlds, सर्वलक्षणसंयुतम् adorned with all the characteristics, विष्णो: Vishnu’s, अर्धम् facet, महाभागम् highly fortunate, ऐक्ष्वाकुवर्धनम् perpetuating the Ikshvaku race, रामम् Rama, पुत्रम् as his son, अजनयत् gave birth . ” Verse and Translation Quoted from http://valmiki.iitk.ac.in/index.php?id=translation
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Posted by Satya Sarada Kandula on March 16, 2009
From : http://satyask.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/aihole-inscription-of-pulikeshin-ii-634-635-ce/
3735 years after the Bharata war is equated with 556 years of the Saka Era, in the Aihole Inscription.
Aryabhatta equated 3600 years after Kaliyuga with 421 years of the Saka Era.
Both give the zero point of the Saka Era as 3179 Kaliyuga.
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