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Question – 23
Since 18th
February, 3102 BCE is the Julian date equivalent of the Gregorian date 23rd
January, 3101 BCE, what is wrong in using it to express the Kali yuga?
Answer:
This can be replied
in two ways.
1.
The
Julian year is not equal to the Gregorian year, and both these are NOT equal
to the sidereal year* used by Indians for computing the Kali year. Let us
compare the length of all these three types of years.
The length of the
Vedic sidereal year = 365.2586806 days
Gregorian
(Tropical) year = 365.24219878 days
Julian (Tropical) year
= 365.24999971days (longer than Gregorian year by 11 minutes 14 seconds)
Since Julian year
is used in the astronomy simulators, let us compare the Julain with the Vedic
sidereal year.
Vedic Sidereal –
Julian Tropical = 0.00868089 days.
The Vedic year is
longer by 0.00868089 days than the Julian Tropical year.
In how many years,
this difference would become 1 day?
115.1955077 Years =1 day
So,
every 115 to 116 years one Julian day is lagging the Vedic year.
Calculate the
number of days drifted in this way for 3067 BCE (in 5087 years from the year 2020)
suggested by Dr. Narahari Achar and promoted by Dr. Manish Pandit as the year of the Mahabharata war.
5087 Years
=44.157971 days
The Julian days in
the astronomy simulator would be behind the Vedic sidereal day by little more
than 44 days for the date 3067 BCE promoted as the date of Mahabharata.
The drift is
higher than this for Mr. Nikesh Oak’s date, 5561
BCE, that is publicized as scientific. Thus any year derived from the
astronomy simulator suffers from the defect of drifting Julian days.
What I have shown
is simple arithmetic. Only experts can do the conversion accurately by considering
the noon and mid night beginning of the Julian day and the sunrise time of the
Vedic sidereal day.
2.
The
planetary locations will be different for Julian and Vedic sidereal days. The converter
between Julian and Gregorian helps in picking out dates in respective calendars
having the same planetary combinations. For example, the conversion shown below
for today will have the same planetary combinations in the dates shown for
Julian and Gregorian.
The planetary combinations on 8th August (today) will appear for 26th July in Julian date in the simulator.
But there is no conversion table available between the Vedic sidereal and Julian calendar. Since there is a loss of 1 Julian day every 115 / 116 Vedic sidereal days the planetary combinations will not be the same in both. For an antiquated date like the Mahabharata, nearly 45 Julian days will be less than the Vedic Sideral days. That means, the planetary combinations shown by the simulator will be way behind the actual by 45 days.
In the case of Kali Yuga date suggested by Burgess, 18th, February, 3102 BCE which has not included zero year, the planetary locations will be certainly different from 23rd January, 3101 BCE. Some people think that by deducting one year, they can get the planetary positions right. How? Only the number of the year will be reduced in that case, but planetary position will be different.
The
date 23rd January, 3101 BCE is just the year number for the Kali
years (3179 before CE 78 of Shalivahana Shaka). On the other hand, 17th
February, 3102 BCE will be 3180 years before CE 78. It violates the Kali
Yuga calculation.
