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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.
