UPDATE:
The entire series of 5 parts can be downloaded here:
https://www.academia.edu/47853142/Siddhantic_Concept_of_Precession_of_Equinoxes_New_Revelations
This is Part
5, the last part of my paper on
the Siddhantic
concept of the equinoxes offering newer insights into emerging trends in
Science on Precession.
Part 1 of my paper (August 2020 )
gives an outline of the western and the Indic model of precession of the
equinoxes and a comparison between the two. The Indic model does not support continuous
precession but
an oscillatory to and fro movement of the equinoxes of a circle of 108˚ covered
in 7200 years at an average rate of 54 arc seconds per year or 1 degree in an
average of 66.66 years.
Part 2 of my paper (September 2020 )
addresses the objections to the Indic model in the light of “a very
difficult passage” in Siddhanta Shiromani on a different version from Surya Siddhanta
and Munjala and resolves them by drawing up the three types of
cycles as
shown below.
Part 3 of my paper (November 2020)
brings to the fore the textual, epigraphic and iconographic evidence on the limited
to and fro motion of the equinoxes, besides the sidereal representation of
the equinoxes and the corresponding polar shift within the constellation called Shishumara (Ursa Minor) as outlined by the various
Indic texts.
Part 4 of my paper ( February 2021) discusses the problems in the
Milankovitch Theory, outlines the Indic model of three cycles and the Band of
Tropic of Cancer known as Jambu Marga within which the solstitial limits move
up and down in three cycles in tune with the to and fro motion of the
equinoxes. Three cycles make up one Yuga of Ayana, mentioned by Munjala. Two
Yugas of Ayana are equal to the span of 41,000 years that match with climatic
changes.
Part
5 of my paper can be read in March 2021 of https://astrologicalmagazine.com/
This last part outlines the historical
beginnings from Skanda’s time that match with the change of an Epoch when
de-glaciation started in the Southern hemisphere causing a series of Meltwater
Pulses.
The oral tradition of Narrangga people of Yorke
Peninsula in Southern Australia of a sea breach around 12,000 years ago
match with the sea flood at Skanda’s time around the same time. The to and fro
ayana cycles are mapped to check the de-glaciation at Skanda’s time and in the
periods before him and after him.
It is found that the glacial events since the
Last Glacial Maxima (33k years ago) had alternated with a gap of approximately
6500 years. This is not supported by the Milankovitch cycles but is found close
to the Indic Ayana cycle of 7200 years. With more evidence coming in support of
much shorter cycles of 1000 and 2000 years known as Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO)
events, they were super-imposed on the Indic to and fro cycles to check for
concurrence.
The
DO events are found to have occurred within 1200 years on either side of the
midpoint of the Indic Ayana cycle at zero degree Aries. In other words,
increased insolation followed by de-glaciation was on the higher side in the
mid region. The absence of the DO events in the edges match with colder times
and mini Ice ages as was witnessed in the 17th century.
Based
on the variations in the rate of trepidation of the equinoxes and Dansgaard
–Oeschger events matching with the Ayana cycles, it is proposed that the sun is
taking a helical or sinusoidal path. While we await corroborative discoveries
in this regard, what cannot be easily displaced is the time tested Indic wisdom
of to and fro movement of the equinoxes.
Path of the Sun, detected in the movement of the equinox
The
precession record (Table 1 in Part 1 of the series) showing faster movement
around the mid-point, with steady slowing down until now and a gradual
acceleration in speed noticed in the past century has no explanation in any
scientific theory but only in the Siddhantic version of the movement of the
equinoxes, as the sun surges in a helical path.
Hypothetical
path of the Sun
* Today we are close
to one edge of the curved path of the sun by having come closer to
the 27 degree distance from the zero point of Aries. Severe winters have
been witnessed since the 17th century.
*
The earth's rotational speed has increased by 3 minutes compared to the 19th
century data with the Pancanka writers.
*
The earth was found to have rotated faster than average on a record number of
28 days in the year 2020, ever since the monitoring started fifty years
ago.
*
There is a spurt in the rate of precession in the past one century.
With
these early indicators for a reversal in the direction of the equinoxes, the
day is not far off to see the Siddhantic model of to and fro motion getting the
attention of the scientific community.
My
effort is a squirrel's part to pick out a few grains known to me in laying the
foundation for a revival of this unrecognized science perfected by our
ancient sages.
