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  • Saptha Rishis Change Abhijit Nakshatra Astronomy Validates

    The concept of Saptha Rishis is known to Hindus.

    These are the seven Sages who are to be accorded the highest respect and their works are believed to be the most authentic for the Manvanthara, a Time Scale to Indian Philosophy.

    In performing any Hindu rite the mention of the Saptha Rishis is mandatory.

    They are the Patriarchs of the Vedic Religion.

    For the present Manvantara, the list is,

    Atri, Bhrigu, Kuthsa,Vasishta,Gauthama,Gauthama Angirasa.

    There is a variation of this as well,

    Bhrigu, Atri, Angirasa Vashista, Pulastya, Pulalaha and Kratu.

    Sanatana Dharma states that these Rishis change for each Manvanthara.

    Manvantara is the astronomical time within an aeon or Kalpa, a “day (day only) of Brahma”, like the present Śveta Vārāha Kalpa, where again 14Manvantaras add up to create one Kalpa.

    Please read my post on Manvantara.

     

    Saptha Rishis in the First Manvantara.

    Atri, Bhrigu, Marichi, Kashyapa, Vasishta, Pulaha, Pulasthya.

    Second Manvantara.

    Urja, Stambha, Prańa, nanda , Rishabha, Nischara, and Arvarívat.

    Third.

    Sons of Vashista: Kaukundihi, Kurundi, Dalaya, Śankha, Praváhita, Mita, and Sammita.

    Fourh.

    Jyotirdhama, Prithu, Kavya, Chaitra, Agni, Vanaka, and Pivara.

    Fifth.

    Hirannyaroma, Vedasrí, Urddhabahu, Vedabahu, Sudhaman, Parjanya, and Mahámuni.

    Sixth.

    Sumedhas, Virajas, Havishmat, Uttama, Madhu, Abhináman, and Sahishnnu.

    Seventh, the present Manvantara.

    Kashyapa, Atri, Vashista, Vishvamitra, Gautama, Jamadagni and Bharadvaja.

    * there is a differnce in the name of the Rishis for the present Manvantara.

    Hindu scriptures declare that the Saptha Rishis change as well as The Pole Star, The Dhruva Nakshatra.

    This is validated by Modern Atronomy.

    Lord Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita says.

     

    ‘I am Arjuna among Pandava and Abhijit among Nakshatras’.

    Abhijit is the unseen Nakshatra in Hinduism , the twenty-eighth.

     

    Abhijit is the Sanskrit name for Vega, the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra.

    Abhijit means “Victorious” or “the One who cannot be defeated”.

    This also changes for Manvantaras.

     

    “Once Pluto moved into 10 degrees of Capricorn, it came within orb of Vega, another of astrology’s famous fixed stars.

    Vega is one of the brightest stars in the sky – the 5th brightest in the whole of the sky. Back around 12,000 BCE, it was Earth’s pole star. And such cycles being what they are, it will be Earth’s pole star yet again – just prior to the year 14,000 CE…

     

    Vega was Pole Star 12000 BC.jpg
    Earth procession of precessional pole stars (Note: all the years in this diagram have been rounded off to make it something south of a migraine to create.)
    “from an Earthly ‘pole pointer perspective’ means Planet Earth is currently pointed almost as ‘away’ from Vega as Earth will ever get. If a planet can ‘look away’ from something, Earth has another 800+ years to go, and it will be ‘pointed’ in as opposite a direction as it can get from Vega. And that’s a rather interesting notion, considering that the astrological Vega is known to be a charismatic position.”
    Indian
    Name    		 Bayer
    Designation    		 Western
    Name
    Kratu α UMa Dubhe
    Pulaha β UMa Merak
    Pulastya γ UMa Phecda
    Atri δ UMa Megrez
    Angiras ε UMa Alioth
    Vashista ζ UMa Mizar
    Bhrigu η UMa Alkaid

     

    It may be noted that Vasishta was the Kula Guru of Dasaratha and Lord Rama and Ram’s date is around 5000  BC.

    Citation.

    http://astroppm.blogspot.in/2013/04/transforming-charisma-pluto-conjuncts.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi#Second_Manvantara_.E2.80.94_the_interval_of_Swarochisha_Manu

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  • Higher Astronomy Instruments Designs Surya Siddhanta

    Higher Astronomy Instruments Designs Surya Siddhanta

    Many are under the impression that Hinduism, especially the Vedas are theoretical and do not address to the problems of daily Life or Science.

     

    Nothing can be farther from the Truth.

     

    Surya Siddhanta.jpg
    Surya Siddhanta.

     

    I had posted articles on practical application of Science,Dealing with daily life, Botany,Zoology, Food and other vital subjects that deal with our daily needs, developed by Hinduism.

     

    Here I am furnishing details from the Surya Siddhanta that deals with Astronomy in detail.

     

    I had earlier posted an article on Vishnu’s Navel Galaxy and how it has been validated by modern Astronomy.

     

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    The Surya Siddhanta is one of the oldest treatises (siddhanta) in Hindu astronomy. The extant text as edited by Burgess (1860) is medieval (c. 12th century), but it is clearly based on older versions, which may go back to before the Common Era[citation needed].

    It has rules laid down to determine the true motions of the luminaries, which conform to their actual positions in the sky. It gives the locations of several stars other than the lunar nakshatras and treats the calculation of solar eclipses. as well as solstices eg.summer solstice 21/06 Significant coverage is on kinds of time, length of the year of gods and demons, day and night of god Brahma, the elapsed period since creation, how planets move eastwards and sidereal revolution. The lengths of the Earth’s diameter, circumference are also given. Eclipses and color of the eclipsed portion of the moon is mentioned.”

     

    Table of contents in Surya Siddhanta.

     

    1. The Mean Motions of the Planets
    2. True Places of the Planets
    3. Direction, Place and Time
    4. The Moon and Eclipses
    5. The Sun and Eclipses
    6. The Projection of Eclipses
    7. Planetary Conjunctions
    8. Of the Stars
    9. Risings and Settings
    10. The Moon’s Risings and Settings
    11. Certain Malignant Aspects of the Sun and Moon
    12. Cosmogony, Geography, and Dimensions of the Creation
    13. The Gnomon
    14. The Movement of the Heavens and Human Activity.

    Design of Astronomical Instruments are also provided.

    Astronomical Instruments by Surya Siddhantham.jpg
    Astronomical Instruments
    by Surya Siddhanhtam.Click to enlarge

     

    Link to Surya Siddhanta Text by Arya Bhatta.

     

    https://archive.org/details/SuryaSiddhanta

    http://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/suryaenglish.pdf

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  • Vishnu Once in 6480 Years Astronomy Precession Equinoxes

    Vishnu Once in 6480 Years Astronomy Precession Equinoxes

    Hinduism and Indian Philosophy have Scared Texts and legends.

     

    The texts are both allegorical and facts.

     

    For instance, the description of Patala refers to the physical location of a place inside/underneath the earth, it also denotes a stage of mental degradation.

    Pole Star ,Dhruva Nakshatra.Precssion of Equinoxes.jpg
    Pole Star ,Dhruva Nakshatra.Precssion of Equinoxes.

     

    Similarly the Saptha Rishi Mandal, or the Great Bear Constellation is a fact and it also refers to the Rishis of yore.

     

    The Pole Star is Dhruva. the Loka granted by Vishnu to the Child Dhruva.

     

    The astronomical events are cloaked in legends and Puranas.

    Sishumara of the Sun with the positions of the Stars that change.jpg.
    Sishumara of the Sun with the positions of the Stars that change.

     

    What is unique is that they are real and also allegorical in describing celestial events.

     

    Let us look into some of these.

     

    The Post of Indra, the chief of Devas and Dhruva is ex officio.

     

    Indra changes in every Yuga, that is the Post of Indra is constant while the person who occupies the place changes.

     

    It is said that who does certain Yagas like the Aswamedha Yagas successfully becomes an Indra, dethroning the present incumbent.

     

    Severe penance also warrants these results.

     

    So Indra disturbs those who engage in these activities.

     

    Now coming to Astronomy.

     

    Time takes a toll on everything in the Universe.

     

    If affects people and non living things.

     

    People age so  also the Rocks etc.

     

    There are two aspects of Time, one is so minute that you do not notice it and the changes effected by it, like Micro seconds, nano seconds and seconds,minutes.

     

    Even changes that occur hourly can be known only with the help of special instruments.

     

    The other aspect of Time is it is so huge to be comprehended, like a light year or AU, Astronomical Unit that is equal to the distance traveled by Light in a Year.

     

    One can not see this as this is a huge number and one may not be alive to see the change by oneself.

     

    Such huge numbers are involved in the Universe in respect of formation of Stars,Galaxies .

     

    Now all of us know the Earth has two movements, one spinning on its own Axis and another moving around the Sun.

     

    The movement around the Sun’s signs by the earth is so slow that it is not noticeable.

     

    Also because of the movement of the Earth and the Stars and other Celestial objects these objects change their  relative places.

     

    To put it simply, Stars change positions as also the Earth, taking the Sun as a reference point.

     

    That the Sun also moves and there are many Suns is a different issue and I shall be posting on the implications.

     

    This movement of the Earth in the Zodiacal Signs of the Sun is called the Precession of the Equinoxes.

     

    Put it simply the Stars change places over a period of Time(long time)

     

    The Pole Star, the Dhruva Nakshatra is taken as a reference in Hinduism and it changes its place once in approximately 26000 years.

     

    This corresponds to one basic Yuga, the Kali Yuga.

     

    According to Vishnu Purana Dhruva changes  every Yuga like Indra, Saptha Rishis(Great Bear Constellation), along with the others in the Universe .

     

    And the ten Avatars of Vishnu represent these Celestial changes.

     

    “THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES is what determines the movement of the Ages backwards through the constellations. It can be understood through the analogy of the Earth spinning like a top, with the Sun and Moon pulling on its equatorial bulge. This gravitational influence creates a wobble, resulting in the precession or the shifting of the equinoctial points with respect to the stars. The north celestial pole describes a small circle with a radius of 23.5 degrees around the north ecliptic pole, with a consequent westward drift of the equinoxes – the two points where the celestial equator crosses the ecliptic. This is not to be confused with the movement of the Earth respective to the ecliptic of the Sun that occurs every year around March 21st, a movement that ever recurs on that date. What is here spoken of is the greater circle upon which the “ayanamsha” or ‘ascendant of the Earth’ is traced, and which coincides with the annual equinoctial point every 25,920 years. Set against the backdrop of the Zodiac, it takes the Earth 25, 920 years to make a “Complete Round” of the 12 astrological signs and 2,160 years to complete one astrological Age….

     

    The Precessional Cycle was described by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, in the Second century BC. but it seems to have been known in the ancient Vedic culture as well. In past millennia, astrologer priests known as Rishis developed precise formulas for calculating the cosmic cycles, and wove their celestial equations into the fabric of their myths and legends. Principal among these cosmological parables was the “Line of Ten Avatars”. According to tradition, Vishnu, one of the principle deities of the Hindu trinity takes birth at particular points in the cosmic cycle which correspond to the earth’s passage through the ‘Fixed’ zodiacal ages. Vishnu appears every 6,480 years at the commencement of the signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. He appears at the behest of a suffering world and comes to destroy evil and injustice and reestablish the eternal truths of the Sanatana Dharma. The Bhagavad Gita, one of India’s most sacred scriptures, reveals something of this cosmic process in Krishna’s dialogue with Arjuna. Krishna tells his disciple:

    ‘Whenever the world declineth in virtue and righteousness; and vice and injustice mount the throne, then cometh I, the Lord and revisit my world in visible form, and mingleth as a man with men, and by my influence and teachings do I destroy the evil and injustice and reestablish virtue and righteousness. Many times have I thus appeared, and many times hereafter shall I come again.’…

    Citation.

    http://www.aeongroup.com/precesn.htm

    http://decodehindumythology.blogspot.in/search/label/Black%20Holes%20and%20Bhagavatam ( Image Credit)
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  • UFO Alien Cave Paintings Chhattisgarh

    UFO Alien Cave Paintings Chhattisgarh

    Ancient Indian Texts refer to Pushpaka Viamana, Flyingships and their descriptions are available in the Texts.

     

    The technology to build them has been used to reproduce one in India.

     

    Please read my post on this.

     

    UFO cave painting of Alien.jpg
    UFO,Alien Cave Painting Chhatisgarh,India

     

    There are prehistoric paintings in caves and also of middle ages including Mahbalipuram where one can see the paintings that resemble modern Spaceships and Astronauts.

     

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    According to archaeologists these ancient rock carvings represent 10,000-year-old depictions of ancient aliens and UFOs.

    Scientists are now trying to unravel the mystery behind the curious paintings and seek help from NASA, ISRO (Indian Space Research Center) and other archaeologists in order to learn more about the origin of these carvings.

    The rock paintings were discovered in caves located about 130 kilometers from Raipur, the capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. According to Times Of India, archaeologist JR Bhagat says these paintings depict aliens in spacesuits.

    “The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers. Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject,” Bhagat told TOI.

    There are several beliefs among locals in these villages. While few worship the paintings, others narrate stories they have heard from ancestors about “rohela people” – the small sized ones – who used to land from sky in a round shaped flying object and take away one or two persons of village who never returned.

    The paintings are done in natural colours that have hardly faded despite the years.The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features.

    Specially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.

    We can’t refute possibility of imagination by prehistoric men but humans usually fancy such things,” the archaeologist said.

     

    Citation.

  • Big Bang Theory Wrong Science

    Once there was Mass, a bunch of Matter.

     

    It became dense, so the Mass became More.

     

    So much More that its Gravity increased to such an extent that it does not allow even Light to escape from it,

     

    At a point of time, because of this immense density the Mass exploded, creating uneven particles.(Big Bang)

     

    Greater the particle, greater the Mass, hence greater density and this attracted more particles.

     

    This is the Big Bang Theory.

     

    Had this been narrated by ordinary people, people would have loved to laugh at the assumptions galore and lack of facts.

     

    Assumptions are made out as Axioms and you are asked to accept them without questioning.

     

    Theories are developed around this nonsense and to our surprise technology using these principle works!

     

     

    Reason Nature does not care nor is it bothered whether some one believes it or finds about it, for it is not obliged to divulge its secrets.

     

    It goes about its job.

     

    Blackhole in Milkyway Galaxy

     

    Fact is that Gravity works whether Ramanan believes it or not, Light waves travel whether you call it Wave, Particle.

     

    It takes another non sense paper to disprove the earlier theory.

     

    Now comes the paper that proves or attempts to prove that Big Bang Theory wrong.

     

    It takes a swipe at Einstein’s Theory as well, which, it is said, is proved.

     

    You do not expect Nature , whose Lifetime is immeasurable,to reveal its Nature, to Man whose average waking Lifetime is hardly 25 years.

     

    Even if you take the aggregate of entire Human population even from earliest civilization, even then it is negligible against Nature.

     

    The disapproval comes from Mathematics, which, though touted as the best Science,is based on Assumptions galore.

     

    ‘Let the children Play’- Nature.

     

    Story:

     

    • Scientist claims she has mathematical proof black holes cannot exist
    • She said it is impossible for stars to collapse and form a singularity
    • Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton said she is still in ‘shock’ from the find
    • Previously, scientists thought stars much larger than the sun collapsed under their own gravity and formed black holes when they died
    • During this process they release a type of radiation called Hawking radiation
    • But new research claims the star would lose too much mass and wouldn’t be able to form a black hole
    • If true, the theory that the universe began as a singularity, followed by the Big Bang, could also be wrong

     

     

    If most people know one thing about black holes, they probably know that nothing can escape from them, not even light.

    Yet this most basic tenet about black holes has actually been disproven by the theory of quantum mechanics, explains theoretical physicist Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, in an essay published online today (Aug. 2) in the journal Science.

    Black holes, in the classical picture of physics, are incredibly dense objects where space and time are so warped that nothing can escape from their gravitational grasp. In another essay in the same issue of Science, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne of Caltech describes them as “objects made wholly and solely from curved spacetime.”

    Yet this basic picture appears to con

    tradict the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern the universe’s tiniest elements.

    “What you get from classical general relativity, and also what everyone understands about a black hole, is that it can absorb anything that comes near, but it can’t emit anything. But quantum mechanics doesn’t allow such an object to exist,” Witten said in this week’s Science podcast.

    In quantum mechanics, if a reaction is possible, the opposite reaction is also possible, Witten explained. Processes should be reversible. Thus, if a person can be swallowed by a black hole to create a slightly heavier black hole, a heavy black hole should be able to spit out a person and become a slightly lighter black hole. Yet nothing is supposed to escape from black holes.

    To solve the dilemma, physicists looked to the idea of entropy, a measurement of disorder or randomness. The laws of thermodynamics state that in the macroscopic world, it’s impossible to reduce the entropy of the universe — it can only increase. If a person were to fall into a black hole, entropy would increase. If the person were to pop back out of it, the universal entropy tally would go down. For the same reason, water can spill out of a cup onto the floor, but it won’t flow from the floor into a cup.

    This principle seems to explain why the process of matter falling into a black hole cannot be reversed, yet it only applies on a macroscopic level

    Citation:http://www.space.com/16867-black-holes-quantum-mechanics-theory.html

     

     

     

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