Mahabharata Quiz - 39

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Question - 39

Is it possible to re-construct the 5-year yuga of the Mahabharata period? If yes, how? What was it?

Answer:

Yes.

·       The 5-year yuga is based on the Uttarāyaṇa of that time. The true position of the sun turning towards north was taken into reckoning in the 1^st year. However, the Uttarāyaṇa was not observed on the exact day of the sun turning north in this scheme. It was observed only on the day after the moon joined this sun in the 1^st year. This is because of the concept of the sun and the moon yoking the year together (Yugya). Conjunction with the other planets is not considered in this Yuga (as in the beginning of Kali Yuga).

·       Every 7^th tithi and the 19^th star at the time of the Uttarāyaṇa in a year will become the tithi and the star of the next ayana of the year. That will be the Dakṣiṇāyana of the 1^st year.  When this is computed for every succeeding ayana, it is found that the initial tithi-star combination (of the 1^st year) repeats only in the 6^th year. That is why five years are clubbed together as one Yuga. When the next conjunction of the sun and the moon takes place at the point of Uttarāyaṇa in the 6^th year, that is taken as the 1^st year of the new 5-year Yuga.

·       Since the beginning of subsequent years of the 5-year period will begin in a different tithi which is determined by the location of the moon, the Uttarāyaṇa of those years will not be in the true location of the sun. The astronomy simulators are practically inadequate to locate the time of the Uttarāyaṇa in the 5-year Yuga.   

Using this formula, we can construct the tithi- nakṣatra of the first day of all the 10 ayana-s in the 5 years of the Mahabharata time. As we know by now that the Mahabharata war occurred in the year Krodhi (3136 BCE), it is possible for us to find out the Uttarāyaṇa position of the year and construct the 5-year yuga from that. This is done using the astrology simulator Jhora.

This simulator provides two systems – Drik and Surya Siddhanta.

Drik is based on the current location of the equinox and the planetary positions as of today. This is extrapolated using a standard ayanamsa calculated by the Western scientists based on continuous precession of the equinox (the current model)

Surya Siddhanta calculation is based on Vedic concept of to and fro oscillating equinox (3600 +3600 years for to and fro) and uses the ayanamsa based on this. When we check the dates from both systems, it was found that Kali Yuga feature of super conjunction of all the planets can be simulated only in the Surya Siddhanta model. Since this is not simulated in the Drik model (same as the one used by NASA et al), the westerners are rejecting the very concept of super conjunction of Kali Yuga. This is supported and parroted by all Indologists except me!

Now coming to the decipherment of the 5-year Yuga, I noted the ayanamsa position in the Jhora and the corresponding date when the sun and the moon were conjunct. The conjunction occurred in the star Uttaraṣādha when the tithi was Shukla Pratipat! The ayanamsa was zero – implying that the sidereal equinox coincided with the tropical equinox at the beginning of Aries (Ashwini). Therefore, the Uttarāyaṇa (winter solstice) had occurred at the beginning of Capricorn where Uttaraṣādha was located.

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The figure shows that a new Yuga started in the year Krodhi – the year of the Mahabharata war. In that year, the Pandava-s ended their exile.

The figure also shows that the Uttarāyaṇa date did not start on the same day every year, though the sun turned northward in the same star. For example, it started on Shukla Trayodasi with the moon in Rohini, in the next year.

A researcher in Mahabharata must bear in mind this anomaly in the calendar in vogue at that time. No modern simulator can detect this anomaly since this Yuga system is not incorporated in any astronomy simulator. 

           

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