As The Ramayana has been verified as a fact and not a figment of Valmiki’s imagination,I have been trying to find out the places visited by Lord Rama.
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been intrigued by the Sthala Puranas, especially in the South relating South Indian Temples to Rama, Hanuman and Lakshmana.
Though it appears that the Sthala Puranas appear to be fables to popularize the local temples, I found it is not so, at least with reference to Ramayana.
Places Visited by Lord Rama. Image credit.www.hindudharmaforums.com
For example there is a temple in Andhra Pradesh where Hanuman rested while bringing the Sanjivi Parvatha.,Vellala Hanuman Temple, or
Temple in Tamil Nadu where Rama and Hanuman confer in private.
Please read my posts on these.
All these are accounted in the Map provided here.
The information is scarce, despite a lot of information in the web on Rama’s travels through out the country.
Most of the information I found were duplication or the places were restricted to places relating to important events in the Life Rama.
Ayodhya,Sarayu, Mithila, Dandakaranya,Nasik,Tunghabhadra,Kishkinta, Godavari, Kaveri belt, and Rameswaram.
Some places in Lanka are mentioned.
Ona detailed analysis and checking up Valmiki Ramayana, there are 196 places visited by Lord Rama.
They may be classified under the following heads.
1.Ayodhya and Gangetic Belt, before Rama’s Exile.
2.On Exile, Dandakaranya.
3.Godavari.
4.Tungabhadra and Kaveri
5. Deep Down South at Rameswaram.
6.Places in Lanka.
7.Rama’s return to India by Pushpaka Vimana.
Rama seems to have returned to Ayodhya by Pushpaka Vimana.
It looks as though the Vimana or the Plane was taken from Rameswaram after rama’s Pooja of Lord Ramanatha at Rameswaram.
I have found a detailed Map marking the 196 places visited by Rama.
The places are written in Hindi and one can easily read them.
Philosophy and Hinduism are so intermingled with a Man’s life in India that it becomes difficult to separate Philosophy, Myths ,Legends,History and work of fiction.
Lord Rama worshipping at Rameswaram
How ever the evidence provided in the Ithihasas (meaning ‘it happened thus’) can not be wished away.
Normal to procedure to validate the authenticity of the work is to check both internal and external evidence.
Internal evidence is provided in the text we are studying ,while external evidence consists of references to the event in Contemporary and post -the work in discussion.
As for as The Ramayana goes, external evidence is provided in the Puranas(means ‘ very old’) , Eighteen in Number( in Sanskrit) and in regional Languages of India, be it Tamil,Telugu,Kannada, Malayalam,Hindi,Bengali,Oriya,other languages .
In addition Dialects of India have this spread through word of mouth.
Though the versions vary in embellishments, the basic fact that there was a King called Rama , he had been sent to forest with his wife called Sita by his father who wanted to appease his wife(not Rama’s mother),she was abducted by a Chieftain called Ravana of Sri Lanka and he was killed by Rama , never varies.(History of The Tamils by P.T.Srinivasa Iyengar)
Reference to the Ramayana has been made in Mahabharata, which is posterior to The Ramayana.
One of the characters in The Mahabharata is Lord Krishna, whose palace has been unearthed off Gujarat coast , India.(please see my blog filed under(‘Videos)
External evidence needs the corroboration of the internal evidence supplied by Valmiki in The Ramayana.
Based on this ,research has proved the Date of birth of Sri Rama, which is explained here below.
In addition the route taken by Lord Rama is traced at the beginning of the article.
Excerpts&(The following document is the ‘MOST’ authentic scientific work that does not need further scientific verification. )
The story of Shri Ram’s life was first narrated by Maharishi Valmiki in the Ramayana, which was written after Shri Ram 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 Ram indicating the location of planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and the other stars (nakshatras) . Needless to add that similar position of planets and nakshatras 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 Ram as given in the Valmiki Ramayan in the software named “Planetarium” corresponding exact dates of these events according to the English calendar can be known.
Mr Pushkar Bhatnagar of the Indian Revenue Service had acquired this software from the US.. It is used to predict the solar/lunar eclipses and distance and location of other planets from earth. He entered the relevant details about the planetary positions narrated by Maharishi Valmiki and obtained very interesting and convincing results, which almost determine the important dates starting from the birth of Shri Ram to the date of his coming back to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile.
Maharishi Valmiki has recorded in Bal Kaand sarga 19 and shloka eight and nine (1/18/8,9) that Shri Ram was born on ninth tithi of Chaitra month when the position of different planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and nakshatras (visible stars) were: i) Sun in Aries; ii) Saturn in Libra; iii) Jupiter in Cancer; iv) Venus in Pisces; v) Mars in Capricorn; vi) Lunar month of Chaitra; vii) Ninth day after no moon; viii) Lagna as Cancer (cancer was rising in the east); ix) Moon on the Punarvasu (Gemini constellation & Pllux star); x) Day time (around noon).
This data was fed into the software. The results indicated that this was exactly the location of planets/stars in the noon of January 10, 5114 BC. Thus Shri Ram was born on January 10, 5114 BC (7123 years back). As per the Indian calendar it was the ninth day of Shukla Paksha in Chaitra month and the time was around 12 to 1 noontime. This is exactly the time and date when Ram Navmi is celebrated all over India.
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