Gomphotheres differed from elephants in their tooth structure, particularly the chewing surfaces on the molar teeth. Most had four tusks, and their retracted facial and nasal bones prompt palaeontologists to believe that gomphotheres had elephant-like trunks.
Hence, can we infer that Srimad Ramayana occurred 16 lakh or 1. The oldest epic sanskrit poem, Ramayana, composed by sage Valmiki, gives clues about this single large continent that existed approximately ,, years ago. The single global ocean which surrounded Pangaea is accordingly named Panthalassa.
The episode detailing the story of King Sagara represents a time going back approximately ,, years ago. Oh, sons, you may therefore proceed to search for the horse and its thief on this Entire Earth which is Garlanded by the Ocean.
Safety upon you all. You can get more description from here. Here is the Wikipedia article for duration of Yuga's. Presently we are in Kaliyuga.. Rama was from Treta yuga, so it's more than appx. Ramayana was not written 1. Manu Samhita clearly describes the length of the yuga but certain scholars have miscalculated the length of the Yugas. According to it, Satya Yuga consists of years, Treta Yuga consits of years, Dwapara Yuga consists of years and Kali Yuga consists of years.
Sri Yukteswar also mentions that we are living in ascending Dwapara Yuga rather than Kali Yuga which most people believe. Ascending Kali Yuga ended in The next age will be ascending Treta Yuga. Lord Rama was born in descending Treta Yuga. In Sundara Kandam Sarga 34 , Sita says:. It means "Joy rushes to surviving man even though it be as the end of a hundred years - this popular adage appears true and and auspicious for me.
It is clear that the average life span of a person was years and not in s. Now because it is written that Lord Rama ruled for years, this figure must be inflated.
The wrong calculation was arrived after yuga years have been multiplied by If you multiply with any of the above yuga figure, you will get the inflated figures mentioned in some of the scriptures. The same can be said of Lord Rama years ruled. To get the correct figure, we divide by and get a figure of years which makes sense considering years was the average life span. So if we calculate from the present time , years have passed since the end of descending Treta Yuga.
Now because Treta Yuga consists of years so we can add to it the years already passed since Treta Yuga's end i. It means descending Treta Yuga started years ago and ended years ago. Lord Rama was born in this period and Ramayan was written thereafter. The above image was taken from wolindia. Check it out. There are too many news articles published around last week or so confirming this fact. Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence produced by the likes of Charles Darwin, they believe the earth was created in BC and that a certain being called god created the world in seven days.
Or was that six? Yes, he was so powerful he needed to rest on Sunday. The British and their acolytes like Max Muller are originally responsible for the prevailing stereotypes about Indian history, religion and culture. Muller, who was in the pay of the East India Company, went so far as to describe the Vedas as childish poetry. But the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and other ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads are true records of Indian history, interwoven with mythology, philosophy and spirituality.
Just because they talk about battles between gods and demons is no reason to dismiss their accounts of kings and other contemporary developments as mere story telling. In their view, because the British averred that Indian epics do not pre-date the Christian Bible, then it must necessarily be true. Science, however, is not parochial. Just like the laws of motion cannot be questioned, scientific evidence is incontrovertible.
Science also has a habit of shaking up the deepest foundations if they rest on a bed of lies. Catholic Christians — or more accurately their boss, the Pope — had to admit at long last in that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, a discovery made by Galileo years ago and which the Hindus knew thousands of years before that.
In the late s divers of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, led by leading archaeologist S. Palaces, pillars, fort walls, a port, anchors and various artefacts have been discovered. This is among the rare instances where a historical fact has been established through scientific methods. It establishes the fact that Krishna existed.
Also, literary references to the characters from the Ramayana Era provide limits after which the Ramayana could not have occurred. For example, Valmiki is referred to in the Taittiriya Brahmana dated to BCE and therefore Ramayana must have been written before the Taittiriya Brahmana was composed.
The wonderful thing about the Ramayana is that when Valmiki wrote the epic, he made it idiot-proof. He packed so much information about the various planetary positions of those days, the geography of the areas mentioned in the epic, the seasonal events, and about the genealogy of various kings that modern astronomers and scientists can have a crack at the dates on which those events occurred.
The Ramayan and the Mahabharata are two such epic tales that have exercised a profound influence on the Indian mind for millenniums. So much so that both Ramayan and Mahabharata are still a living force in the life of every Indian. Still, the time period of Ramayan and Mahabharata is debated and questioned. Largely because there is no organic evidence relating to the period of either Ramayana or Mahabharata. To begin with, we would like to categorically state that both Ramayan and Mahabharata are not mere religious texts of Hindu.
In fact, they are an important and integral part of Indian culture. Now, there are several scientific tools and techniques that go on to determine the exact dates of these ancient events in a scientific and precise manner.
Some of the popular scientific techniques used to determine the dates of occurrences of Ramayan and Mahabharata are as follows:. These scientific tools and techniques have proved beyond doubt that the Ramayan and Mahabharata do not merely belong to the domain of mythology. They belong to true history and are in fact historical events that occurred on Earth. It should be noted that such planetary and zodiac combinations have not been repeated to date.
So there is no one Ramayana or Mahabharata. These events recur in every cycle kalpa. Each cycle has four phases yuga , and Ramayana takes place in the second, and Mahabharata in the third. Between each cycle there is pralaya end of the world when all matter is dissolved and the only memory that survives is the Vedas. The last Ice Age, when much of the earth was covered with snow, ended about 10, years ago.
The faith-based school believes the Ice Age marked the last pralaya. Based on astronomical information such as position of constellations and time of eclipses available in scriptures, they have concluded that events in the Ramayana took place 7, years ago and events in the Mahabharata took place 5, years ago.
The sages Valmiki and Vyasa witnessed these events, and composed epics, not merely to share the story, but to reveal how their protagonists, Ram and Krishna, used Vedic wisdom to engage with society. However, this traditional view is not accepted by scientists. According to scientists, after the Ice Age, we find rise of human civilisation around the world, especially in river valleys. We find settlements in South Asia as confirmed by cave paintings and various Stone Age artefacts.
The Harappan city civilisation thrived around the rivers Indus and Saraswati in the North West for a thousand years from 5, years ago to 4, years ago, with trade links to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Climate changes, and the drying of Saraswati, led to the collapse of this civilisation.
The only image recognisable is one that suggests Shiva in meditation. While Harappan cities collapsed, the ideas found in the Harappan civilisation did not die out and probably served as one of the many tributaries to the river we called Indic culture. And so plants such as pipal, symbols such as swastika and mathematical proportions such as one and one quarter which have been traced in Harappan cities are still very much part of contemporary Indian faith systems.
As the Harappan civilisation cities without language waned, the Vedic civilisation language without cities waxed, marked by hymns in a language similar to the language of a nomadic people who migrated out 5, years ago from Eurasia towards Europe in the West and India via Iran in the East. It was never an invasion as British Orientalists imagined. Photo: Reuters.
According to language experts, while proto-Sanskrit may have come from Eurasia, the language we call Sanskrit today emerged in the region where Harappan cities once thrived.
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