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Historicity Era of Lord Rama PDF
Historicity Era of Lord Rama PDF
LORD RAMA
We, Indians, are the products of one of the oldest civilisations. We need to be
really proud of our ancient history and cultural heritage. However, during the
British Rule, we developed an inferiority complex, which adversely affected our
quest to unearth facts relating to our glorious past. But our young and educated
men and women, being born and brought up in independent India, are capable
of unearthing the true facts and are confident enough to evaluate these objectively.
Shri Rama being most basic to Indian ethos, it is necessary to know who is
Shri Rama? Was he really born? If yes, when and where? As is believed by crores
of people did he really put his feet on the territory of India from North to South,
reducing the sufferings of mankind and ensuring victory of good over evil? Let
us have a look at historical facts.
The story of Shri Ramas life was first narrated by Maharishi Valmiki in the
Ramayan which was written after Shri Rama was crowned as the king of Ayodhya.
Maharishi Valmiki was a great astronomer as he has made sequential astronomical
references on important dates related to the life of Shri Rama indicating the
location of planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and the other visible stars
(nakshatras). Needless to add that similar position of planets and nakshatras
vis-a-vis zodiac constellations is not repeated in thousands of years. By entering
the precise details of the planetary configuration of the important events in the life
of Shri Rama as given in the Valmikis Ramayan in the software named
Planetarium Gold corresponding exact dates of these events according to English
calendar can be known.
Sh. Pushkar Bhatnagar of Indian Revenue Service had acquired from USA the
software named Planetarium Gold (of Fogware Publishing) which is used to
predict the solar/lunar eclipses and distance and location of other planets from
earth by the scientists and astronomers. He entered the relevant details about the
planetary positions vis-a-vis zodiac constellations narrated by Maharishi Valmiki
and obtained very interesting and convincing results, which almost determine the
important dates starting from the birth of Shri Rama to the date of his coming
back to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile. Sh. Pushkar Bhatnagar has given very
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authentic and convincing details of these dates in his book titled Dating the Era
of Lord Rama published by Rupa & Co., some extracts from which are being
summarised in the succeeding paras.
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(20N 73E). On that date planetary configuration was the same as has been
described by Valmiki, i.e., Mars was in the middle, on one side was Venus and
Mercury and on the other side were Sun and Saturn.
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The date and time of Hanumans return from Lanka 14th September, 5076 BC.
This slide shows the time when Hanuman reached the middle of the sea
to rest on a small hill.
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Such sequential matching of important dates in the life of Lord Rama narrated
in Valmikis Ramayan with astronomical dating done through planetary
configurations cannot be a mere coincidence. It speaks volumes about the historicity
of the era of Lord Rama!
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they visited several Rishi ashrams in MP and Chattisgarh areas, along Narmada
and Mahanadi rivers for 10 years, and then came back to Sutikshan ashram.
Several memorials in Panna, Raipur, Bastar and Jagdalpur still exist which include
Mandavya ashram, Shringi ashram, Ram Laxman Mandir etc.
After crossing many rivers, lakes, hills and forests they went to Agastya ashram
in Nasik. As per Valmiki, weapons made in Agnishala were given to Shri Rama
by Agastya Muni in this ashram.
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In Yuudh Kand, sarg 22 (shlokas 45-73) Valmiki has narrated in detail that
originally Shri Ramas army camped in Kodikarai but found that place unsuitable
for constructing the bridge. Therefore, the entire army was shifted to Rameswaram.
Research was carried out by Shri Rama for three days to find out a suitable
location in the sea for constructing the land route so that the army could cross
over to Sri Lanka. Finally, the suitable location was identified. Shri Nal, a famous
shilpakar, who had the expertise similar to that of Vishwakarma in constructing the
bridges, was requested to construct the bridge (6/22/45).
After carrying out the survey, Nal declared that a bridge can indeed be
constructed at the identified location. The armymen of Shri Rama utilized various
tools and implements for uprooting trees like Taar, coconut, mango, ashoka, bakul
etc., and with the help of various yantras transported these trees, stones, and rocks
to the seashore. Shilpakar Nal directed the armymen to stand with long ropes/
chains on either side and filled the space in between with creepers, trees, stones
and rocks and bound them together. The construction of Ramsethu was completed
See the Boundaries looking like ropes & the fillings in between
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in five days by connecting the existing land route consisting of islands, rocks and
shoals. See some latest pictures which apparently corroborate such descriptions!
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kingdom.
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Library, Tanjavur. However in the later 1804 A.D. version of the map, the name
RAMA BRIDGE has been replaced with the name ADAMS BRIDGE! Hence the
RAMA BRIDGE becomes the ADAMS BRIDGE and the psychology behind the
same needs no explanation!
The Essence
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Bengal to Gujarat, everywhere people
believe in the reality of Shri Ramas existence, particularly in the tribal areas of
Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and the
North East. Most of the festivals celebrated in these tribal areas revolve around
the events in the life of Shri Rama and Shri Krishna.
The events and places related to the life of Shri Rama and Sita are true cultural
and social heritage of every Indian irrespective of caste and creed and therefore it
is common heritage. After all, Shri Rama belonged to the period when Prophet
Mohammed or Jesus Christ were not born and Muslim or Christian faiths were
unknown to the world. India was also known as Bharat (meansland of knowledge)
and Aryavarta (where Aryans live).
During Rama Rajya, the evils of caste system based on birth were non-existent.
In fact, Maharishi Valmiki is stated to be of Shudra class (Scheduled Caste) still
Sita lived with him as his adopted daughter after she was banished from Ayodhya
and Shri Ramas children Luv and Kusha grew in his ashram as his disciples. We
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need to feel proud of the fact that Maharishi Valmiki was perhaps the first
great astronomer and that his study of planetary configurations has stood the
test of times. Even the latest computer softwares have corroborated his astronomical
calculations, which prove that he did not commit any error. Shabari is stated to
be belonging to Bheel tribe and the army of Shri Rama, which succeeded in
defeating Ravana was also formed by various tribals from Central and South India.
The facts, events and all other details relating to the life of Shri Rama are the
common heritage of all the Indians.
The scientific details narrated about to indicate that Shri Rama was actually
born 7000 years back. Hence, discovering the details relating to Shri Ramas life
would be lot more difficult as destruction caused by floods, earthquakes and
invasions etc. would be far greater. But should that stop our quest for learning
more and more about our cultural heritage?
As Indians, let us all take pride in the fact that Indian civilisation is the most
ancient civilisation surviving on planet earth and it is certainly more than 10,000
years old. Therefore, let us reject the story of Aryan invasion of India in 1500 B.C.
as mere linguistic guess work or as a motivated implantation. In fact Max Mueller,
who was the creator of this theory, had himself rejected this theory. Let us admit
that during British Rule, we were educated in the schools based on Macaulay
school of thinking which believed that every Indian was inferior and that entire
Indian literature was not worth even one book rack in England. If there were
similarities in certain features of Indian people and people from Central Europe,
then automatic inference drawn was that the Aryans coming from Europe invaded
India and settled here. No one dared of thinking in any other way. Therefore, there
is urgency for the historians and all other intellectuals to stop reducing Indian
history to myth. There is need to gather, dig out, search, unearth and analyse all
the evidences, which would throw more light on ancient Indian civilisation and
culture.
It is saddening that even after 60 years of independence, the Government of
India has not constituted a multidisciplinary team consisting of archaeologists,
divers, geologists, ecologists and oceanographers to carry out the research around
Ram Sethu area. After all when such a team was constituted, the submerged city
of Dwarka was found 1.5 kilometres away from the existing Dwarka. Therefore,
instead of certifying the non-existence of Ramsethu without any credible
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research, the need is to carry out scientific research. Not only this, with the
development of new scientific methods, the old history written on basis of linguistics
will have to be discarded. There is a need to constitute a multidisciplinary team
in order to carry out research pertaining to most ancient period and this team
should consist of Sanskrit Pandits, Astronomers, Archaeologists, Geologists and
Space Scientists. This team should be asked to carry out and correlate research
activities in order to rewrite the history after verifying the authenticity and dating
of most ancient events of Indian history.
There is need for the print and the electronic media to take note of these facts
and create atmosphere which would motivate our young and educated youth to
carry out research and unearth true facts about ancient Indian civilisation and
wisdom and would also encourage them to put across the results of their research
before the people fearlessly and with a sense of pride!
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Srimadvalmeekiya Ramayana. Published by Geeta Press, Gorakhpur.
2. Dating the Era of Lord Rama by Pushkar Bhatnagar, Published by Rupa &
Company.
3. The Astronomical code of the Rigveda by Professor Subhash Kak of Lousiana
University (USA), Published by Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
4. Ayodhya Ka Itihas by Rai Bahadur Sita Ram (1932), Published by Arya Book
Depot, Karol Bagh, New Delhi.
5. Shri Rama Van Gaman Sthal by Dr. Ram Avtar, Published by Shri Rama Sanskritik
Shodh Sansthan Trust, New Delhi.
6. Rama Sethu, Published by Rameswaram Rama Sethu Protection Movement, Chennai.
7. Historical Atlas of South Asia by Joseph E. Schwartzberg.
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