Mahabharata Quiz - 97

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Question – 97

Can it be scientifically proved that there was indeed a comet / asteroid hit in the year 3136 BCE (the year of the Mahabharata war)?

Answer:

Certainly yes. The comet or asteroid hits cause a dip in temperature globally when the impact is considerable. This leaves several imprints on tree rings, chemical composition in the air that leave an impact on the earth and in ice sheets. Radiocarbon dating is done to assess the age of these impacts. Today we have such data for nearly 50,000 years in the past and more accurately for the Holocene period of 12,000 years.

The changes in temperature are plotted into a graph called GISP2 which shows variations in temperature in the past. Interestingly, the graph shows a sharp dip in the year 3136 BCE!

 

Rapid temperature-drop in 3136 BCE

In the above figure, the blue line marks 3136 BCE from when the temperature drops sharply indicating some impact that reduced global temperature.

Incidentally, that year saw a comet vanishing in Pushya day and several of its fragments banging on the earth and the moon.

There are four sudden drops between the years 3210 BCE to 2920 BCE forming a period of temperature-drop called the “Piora Oscillation.” They are as follows:

1.     Andaman Sea 3210 BC

2.     Hastināpura 3136 BC

3.     Morasko 3040 BC

4.     Burckle 2920 BC

Except the 2nd event, which I have named as "Hastināpura event" the locations of the other three have been identified by scientists. 3136 BCE shows up in the graph but scientists were not aware of the location of the fall. Now with the exposition of the inputs given in the Mahabharata, it is proved that the event had occurred in North India from Langatang in Nepal to Persian Gulf with Mohenjo-Daro and Hastinapur feeling the impact. The Biblical Flood was the major result of this impact.

Change in tithi is a far important development as a result of this impact which only Mahabharata explains. Only Mahabharata offers the first ever eyewitness account of a comet-fall with more than 75 markers – all of them related to comet/ asteroid hit. Vyasa used the term ‘nimitta’ to mark them, but they are evidences for a comet fall. It is humanly impossible to write so many markers for the comet fall unless people have witnessed them in reality.