Monday, December 29, 2025

A comet 'stood' on Pushya (Part 21 of the Mahabharata Series)

 In the 21st part of the Mahabharata series, an important verse of the Mahabharata which solves all the issues around the date of the war is discussed. As we proceed with the sequence of events since Krishna left for Hastinapura, it was found that the peace mission failed and Duryodhana declared on the pushya day that he was going to anoint Bhishma as the commandar in chief and start for the war.

At the time of anointing, bad nimittas were seen and heard. One of them was about a comet which just 'stood' on Pushya implying that it was last seen on Pushya day and went missing thereafter. Five days after that, on Uttara Phalguni day Krishna met Karna when Karna anxiosuly talked about the bad nimittas seen of which five were odd planetary nimittas which require Lord Ganesha's comprehension power. Those will be discussed one by one in the upcoming parts.



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