The glorious ancient history has left us evidences. And the generations of people tell us stories. However, unfortunately for some, history and stories have changed names to myths and folklore. The cave of Veda Vyasa. Popularly known as Vyas Gufa. It is located in Mana village in the state of Uttarakhand, India. A simple uphill trek through the village lanes. The place is located around 5 km from the sacred Badrinath Temple.
It is also located very near to the Indo Tibetian Border. The locals believe that the Sage Vyas composed the Mahabharata in this place with the help of Lord Ganesh. The Vedas was also divided into smaller parts at this place. The eighteen Puranas as well as Brahma Sutra were written here. This has real implication for the calculation of timeline which can be seen below in various astronomy based predictions for the date of Mahabharata.
The astronomical dating premise is surely ruled out. A very important point while discussing the timeline of Mahabharata that needs to be considered is the problem of iron. Iron Age in India is clearly established to have started around BC or later. In Mahabharata, there are multiple mentions and the use of iron weapons.
This puts Mahabharata to be a relatively recent development. The Rigveda contains accounts of conflicts between the Aryas and the Dasas and Dasyus. It describes Dasas and Dasyus as people who do not perform sacrifices Akratu or obey the commandments of gods Avrata. While many Indians believe that Aryan migration in India has been a western theory that was manipulated to suit their colonial ambitions, there is a strong basis for Aryan migration theory. Winds, dry and strong, and showering gravels, blew from every side.
Birds began to wheel, making circles from right to left. The great rivers ran in opposite directions. The horizon on every side seemed to be always covered with fog. Meteors, showering blazing coals, fell on the Earth from the sky. A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe… An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10, suns, rose in all its splendor… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river. At its rise, the great luminary of day was shorn of splendour and seemed to be crossed by headless trunks of human beings.
Fierce circles of light were seen every day around both the Sun and the Moon. These circles showed three hues…. There seems to be an eerie reference to the atomic bomb explosion and radioactivity. But there is nothing remotely like this story in any archaeological publications. Archaeological information about the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and other Indus Valley sites is widely available online and in print, and there is simply no such thing as radioactive skeletons or skeletons in large numbers or holding hands or sprawled in any way that the archaeologists saw reason to print.
Furthermore, the vast majority of radioactive isotopes produced in a nuclear blast have extremely short half-lives measured in seconds, hours, or days, and are reduced to safe levels very quickly. Those that pose the greatest threat to human health are Cesium and Strontium, which have half-lives of 30 and 28 years, and so even these would have been reduced to well below the natural background levels thousands of years ago. Note that despite the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no harmful radiation persists today in either city.
Put together all the radiation data, and we know for a fact, with no doubt, that any claims of modern radiation in India proving a prehistoric nuclear war are false.
So we have good reason to regard the entire story with great skepticism. So how about this giant unexplained crater near Bombay? Lonar Crater — which is some kilometers southeast of Jodhpur, even farther away — is indeed a real crater. Rim to rim it measures about 1. It is blasted out of thick layers of volcanic basalt, deposited over the plateau 66 million years ago. If the crater was indeed formed by a nuclear blast , years ago, dating techniques should make this easy to determine.
For a long time, the accepted age of Lonar Crater was 52, years; far too old to have been part of this alleged nuclear war. This had been determined by thermoluminescence dating, which tells us when the sample was last molten. But two newer measurements, using argon-argon radiometric dating instead, found older dates of , years and , years, with non-overlapping margins of error.
Reference Dunning, B. Skeptoid Media, 18 Oct The comparative study of surrounding sites indicates that the date of the structures of Dwarka may be between the Historical period and the late medieval period.
The paper reviews the earlier hypothesis about the identification and dating of these structures in light of new evidences from the recent underwater explorations. According to ancient Sanskrit literature, Lord Krishna founded the holy city of Dwarka, which subsequently got submerged undersea. Marine archaeological explorations off Dwarka have brought to light a large number of stone structures, which are semicircular, rectangular and square in shape in water depth ranging from the intertidal zone to 6 m.
They are randomly scattered over a vast area. Besides these structures, a large number of varieties of stone anchors have been noticed along with the structures as well as beyond 6 m water depth.
With all due respect to the epic, there are multiple instances of fictional stories using real settings, places, and people. These are easy examples to understand. The Cable Guy In this film starring Jim Carrey as a disturbed cable guy who tries to make friends there is a scene that predicted the future with creepy accuracy. He even says you will play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam, predicting online gaming and Google TV at the same time. One of the most fascinating movie villains of modern cinema is this evil voice-controlled computer in A Space Odyssey.
WarGames This awesome eighties film that gave us a young, fresh-looking Matthew Broderick? Quite impressive if you think about it: Matthew Broderick as the first hacker in pop culture, no? Archaeological explorations and excavations at various places which are mentioned in the Mahabharata like Hastinapura, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Tilpat, Baghpat, Mathura, and Bairat, have given evidence of pottery called Painted Grey Ware, which goes back to c.
This shows that these sites were inhabited around this time, and the nature of the remains suggests that the people who lived here shared a pastoral and agricultural living. There is another sort of evidence from Hastinapura: The Matsya and Vayu Puranas state that during the reign of king Nichakshu fifth king in the Puranas.
There is a strong local tradition that the Purana Qila in New Delhi marks the place where Indraprastha, the capital of the Pandavas, once stood. A 14th century stone inscription found in Naraina village in west Delhi also mentions Indraprastha. In fact, till the end of the 19th century, there was a village called Indarpat inside the fort walls. Excavations carried out at the Purana Qila between and revealed several archaeological levels ranging from the 4th century BCE to the 19th century CE.
The discovery of a few stray pieces of PGW indicated the possibility that an older settlement was located somewhere nearby. However, there is no way of knowing for sure whether this settlement had any connection with the Mahabharata.
The single most challenge that anyone who wants to prove that Mahabharata and the war mentioned as Kurukshetra War happened, will be to establish when did it actually happen? A simple run through the Timeline of Indian History will show why it is so difficult to place the Kurukshetra war and events in Mahabharata on this timeline.
It is regarded by the common people as a source of pleasure, moral lessons and solace at times of trials and tribulations. The Mahabharata has been translated into almost all the regional Indian languages, including Bangla.
With each translator bringing his own perception of life, social consciousness and individual composing skills, these translations become almost original poems. There were several Bangla translators of the Mahabharata, dating from the 16th century. This is a fairly brief version and uses the traditional payara couplet and tripadi an arrangement of lines into sets of three.
Kavindra Parameshwar was the court poet of paragal khan , the ruler of chittagong , and he composed the poem at his ruler's command. Accordingly, his version is also known as Paragali Mahabharata.
A poet named Sanjay, a contemporary of Kavindra, also translated the Mahabharata. Some believe Sanjay's version is the older of the two. However, as these two versions are almost the same, some critics believe Kavindra and Sanjay - of whom nothing is known - to be the same person.
Nityananda Ghosh's Mahabharata c 16th century used to be popular, but has now been replaced in popularity by Kashiram Das's version.
Kashiram Das's Mahabharata, called the Kashidasi Mahabharata c 17th century after him, is much longer than the Kavindra Mahabharata. The Mahabharata was also translated into Bangla prose by kali prasanna singh and rajshekhar basu in the 19th century.
Around this time some writers also translated the epic into English. Many poets translated parts of the Mahabharata. Other sections of the epic were also translated, such as the Vana parva, describing the sojourn in the forest, by Ramsarasvati, court poet of the king of Cooch Bihar, and Naladamayanti Upakhyan the story of Nala and Damayanti , by Pitambar Das. Toggle navigation Banglapedia.
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