Friday, October 13, 2023

Mahabharata Quiz - 84

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Question – 84

How do you say that the waxing phase that started after Trayodasi Amavasya ended once again in Trayodasi tithi? Did Vyasa say so?

Answer:

Yes. Vyasa said about the shortening of the next phase by Trayodasi tithi while expressing the odd events to Dhritaraṣhṭra before the war started.

To understand this verse, let us recollect that Karthika Pournami occurred soon after Krishna started his mission. Based on the star of the day he started (Revati) we said in Question - 65 that he started the discussion with the Kauravas in their assembly on the Full moon day. That was in the Karthika month. The Full Moon occurred in Karthika star. The waning phase that started after the Full Moon ended in Trayodasi Amavasya when Vishakha star was running. The next day the waxing phase of Margashira month started. It must end up in Full Moon in Mrigashirisha star. Counted from the 1st tithi after that Amavasya, Mrigashirisha is the 16th star which is the time for Full Moon. But Vyasa said that it ended in Krittika star!

In other words, Vyasa indicated that Full moon occurred in the same star of Karthika for two consecutive months! Instead of Mrigashirsha star, the full moon occurred well before that in Krittika which is impossible to happen in nature, but it did happen on that phase following Trayodasi Amavasya. Once again, the moon had moved quickly or moved in a shortened orbit such that the Full moon occurred when Trayodasi must have been running. This shows that the hit suffered by the moon had caused the moon to attain a new equilibrium by which two consecutive phases ended in Trayodasi tithi-s.

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