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  • Vikramaditya Date 105 BC Evidence

    At times,when I study the History of India, as narrated by western authors and our home grown secularists I get the impression that Indian history is meticulously crafted, unadulterated fiction, with no regard to facts found in Indian texts.

    They are prepared to accept the History of India by James Mill as the gospel, which states that Indians were rooted in superstition and that India had no civilisation worth mentioning.

    The same book claims that the earth is six thousand years old!

    The gentleman wrote Indian history without ever stepping in the soil of India nor did he refer any texts,either Indian or Foreign classical authors.

    What a scholarship!

    And if one were to believe such authors, text books in Indian schools, one would believe that real Indian history began with the Invasion of India by Alexander.

    I have,with proof, written that it is non sense and traced Indian history from Mahabharatha period to Nanda Dynasty.

    Such misinformation has caused enormous harm to Indian history and culture.

    History of India is denied and dates of great kings and dynasties are assigned later dates, if not denying them outright.

    This is not limited to kings.

    Great personalities too suffered this fate.

    Buddha, Kalidasa, Rajput Kings, Tamil kings, to mention a few.

    So are the ancient literature in Sanskrit and Tamil.

    In this article, let us examine the Emperor Vikramaditya,after whom one of the three calendars of India are named.

    Many mistake the son of Samudra Gupta of Maurys Dynasty,Chandra Gupta.

    He assumed the name of Vikramaditya, who lived around 105 BC and established his Empire in India, Far East and Middle East.

    He conquered Arabia and established Shiva Linga in Mecca.

    Emperor Vikramaditya.image
    Emperor Vikramaditya

    Evidence of Vikramaditya’s date.

    ‘A Shaka ruler invaded north-western India and oppressed the Hindus. According to one source, he was a Shudra from the Almanṣūra city; according to another, he was a non-Hindu who came from the west. In 78 CE, the Hindu king Vikramaditya defeated him and killed him in the Karur region, located between Multan and the castle of Loni. The astronomers and other people started using this date as the beginning of a new era.’

    -Al Birauni.
    Since there was a difference of over 130 years between the Vikramaditya era and the Shaka era, Al-Biruni concluded that their founders were two kings with the same name. The Vikramaditya era named after the first, and the Shaka era was associated with the defeat of the Shaka ruler by the second Vikramaditya‘

    Reference and citation.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikramaditya

    “purne thrimsachchate varsheKalau prapte bhayamkareSakanamcha Vinasardham AryaDharma vivruddhaye Jatassivajnaya sopi kailasatGuhyakalayat.”

    – Bhavishya Maha Purana (3-1-7-14,15 verses)

    “Vikramaditya namanam pita Krutwa mumodahaSa balopi mahaprajanah pithruMathru priyamkarah”(3-1-7-16)
    “pancha Varshe vayah prapte Tapasordhe vanam gatahDwadasabdam prayathnenaVikramena krutam tapah” (Bhavishya 3-1-7-17)
    “Paschadambavatim divyamPurim yatah sriyanvitahDivyam simhasanam ramyamDwathrimsan murthi samyutam” (Bhavishya 3-1-7-18)

    At the completion of 3000 years after the advent of the terrible Kaliyuga, (ie.101 BCE.) a person descended from the abode of Guhyakas in Kailasa, at the command of Lord Siva, for the purpose of destroying the Sakas and uplifting Arya-Dharma. He was born to the Great King Gandharvasena. The father named him ‘Vikramaditya’ and felt very much rejoiced...
    Paramara KingsAmong the Paramara kings, the first one reigned between 2710 – 2716 Kali Yuga (392 – 386 BCE)Salivahana established his own Saka in 78 CE, which is followed even today in most parts of India and years in panchang (vedic almanac) known as Saka Samvat or Shaka Samvat.

    Paramara dynasty continued to rule Ujjain, which ended in 1305 CE, whose last king was Mahakaladeva.

    Reference and citation.

    https://www.booksfact.com/history/emperor-vikramaditya-ujjain-actual-dates.html

    Will be providing more evidence on Vikramaditya date from Tamil literature and foreign authors.

    Will be posting on History of Rajputs.

    Also on Bhoja.

  • Saptha Rishi Calendar India Oldest Sets Preset Era 6676 BC

    Saptha Rishi Calendar India Oldest Sets Preset Era 6676 BC

    The measurement of Time in India is unique.

    While other calendars take Time to be Linear,that is Time flows in a straight line, yesterday,today and tomorrow,Indian cosmology takes Time as Cyclic.

    It is for our convenience that we follow the Julian calendar,where midnight is reckoned as the end of one day and the beginning of another.

    For Hindus,new day begins at 3.45 am approximately.

    And in Hinduism Time is not Linear,but Cyclic.

    That is Time is Eternal and keeps on recurring,in our Perception.

    In fact Time is reckoned as synonymous with Reality.

    Time is a spectacle,along with Space.

    Both are the tools embedded in our thought processes and as such make us Perceive things only through them.

    Try forming a sentence,or even a Thought, without reference to Time and Space.

    It is impossible.

    Please read my article Time Cyclic,not Linear.

    I also recommend the documentary Time available in Amazon Prime Videos.

    So the calculation of Time in India is different.

    The Indian Calendars are of two kinds.

    One is designed based on the movement of the Sun,Suryamanasa,and another Chaandramanasa,based on Moon’s movement.

    In general there are five calendars being followed in India.

    Vikrama,in North,

    Shalivahana in Deccan,

    Tamil in Tamil Nadu,

    Malayalam calendar in Kerala and

    Bengali calendar in Eastern India.

    There are more regional versions of Calendars.

    These vary.

    Now ,in general,we follow the Julian Calendar in our daily life.

    Here we have a confusion confounded with BC and AD.

    You have two systems of dating one before Christ (BC) and another after Christ,AD.

    This Calendar is linear,that is year 2000,2001,2002…….

    But Indian calendar has sixty years of the same name,running again and again.

    That is one year starts with Prabhava,Vibhava….,runs for sixty years and it again starts with Prabhava.

    So to find the exact date one needs other references,because if you say an event took place in Prabhava, you do not know which Prabhava as Prabhava keeps on occuring once in sixty years.

    But in Jukian calendar you mention 1960,1868 etc and you can locate the year.

    This is because Julian Calendar takes Time as Linear.

    But Calendar of Hindus differ and the names of years get repeated.

    So to pinpoint a specific day or date following parameters are added in Hundu calendar.

    Ayana, movement of the Sun to Cancer or to Capricorn,

    Ritu,Season,

    Samvatsara,

    Month,

    Paksha,waxing or waning of the Moon,Sukla or Krishna Paksha,

    Thithi,the day from the New or Full Moon,

    Nakshatra,the Star of the day.

    This gives you a comprehensive view to arrive at a particular date.

    (Even this elaborate system is not foolproof in fixing exact date. I wilk be writing on this.)

    But to get this date or day,you need a starting point.

    Vikarma,named after King Vikramaditya begins with his time,Shakivahana with his Time ,Tamil ,Malayalam and Bengali begin with Kali,that is Kaliyuga.

    But there is a fundamental base year for Hindu Calendar.

    It is the Saptha Rishi calendar.

    Not many are aware of this.

    There are, according to Hindu cosmology,Seven Seers,Rishis,who do not die at the time of the dissolution.

    The post is Ex officio.

    The Rishis,seven in numbet change for each yuga/Manvantara,a time scale.

    Please refer my article on Manvantara.

    The seven or Saptha Rishis , for Kakiyuga are,

    Atri,

    Bhrugu,

    Kutsa,

    Vaisishta,

    Gautama,

    Kasyapa and

    Angirasa.

    The Rishis differ in some puranas.

    Saotha Rishi Era, Calendar begins in 6676 BC,that is 8600 years ago.

    This has been mentioned by Kalhana, Indian King and Historian..Greek Historians Pliny and others recird this.

    This would predate events in Indian History.

    The Saptarshi cycle

    A lesser-known Hindu system of time-reckoning is the Saptarshi cycle of 3600 years (possibly based on the 60-year cycle, see ch. 2.4.5. below). At any rate, by the Christian age we find writers who take this concept of a 3600-year cycle literally, and it is hard to either prove or refute that this may have been a much older tradition.

    The medieval Kashmiri historian Kalhana claimed that the previous cycle had started in 3076 BC, and the present one in AD 525. J.E. Mitchiner has suggested that the beginning of the Saptarshi reckoning was one more cycle earlier, in 6676 BC: “We may conclude that the older and original version of the Era of the Seven Rsis commenced with the Seven Rsis in Krttika in 6676 BC, used a total of 28 Naksatras, and placed the start of the Kali Yuga in 3102 BC. This version was in use in northern India from at least the 4th century BC, as witnessed by the statements of Greek and Roman writers; it was also the version used by Vrddha Garga, at around the start of the Christian era.”22 This would roughly coincide with the start of the Puranic dynastic list reported by Greco-Roman authors as starting in 6776 BC.

    Source.

    http://www.indicethos.org/Astronomy/The%20SaptaRishi%20Cycle

  • England Followed Hindu Vikrama Saka Calendar Before 1752?

    Which Calendar did people use before Julian Calendar?

    There have been two methods.

    One based on the movement of the Sun,Solar Calendar.

     

    The other is based on the movement of the Moon,Lunar Calendar

    The Solar Calendar is called Surya Maanasa and the Lunar,Chandra Manasa.

    Both are in vogue in India.

    There are some more caledars based on important events ,like King Vikramaditya’s reign.

    There are,

    Hindu ,

    Vikram,

    Tamil,

    Malayalam,

    Bengali and

    Nana Sakhi.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_calendar

    While India has been traditionally following either the Solar or Lunar Calendars, in the West,there has been confusion galore.

    empireofvikramaditya1

    In India,though two primary Calendars,Solar and Lunar, for religious purposes to fix the Nakshatra ,the Solar Calendar is followed because the Sun was recognised as a Star by ancient Hindus and for Thithi,which deals with the movement of the Moon is followed.

    As mentioned at the beginning of this article, there is also a Vikrama Calendar,Vikrama Samvatsara.

    The curious fact is that England, Wales and Scotland were following the Vikrama Samvatsara till 1752 when they changed it.

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    Yet another proof of India having once ruled England is the fact that until 1752 A.D. the English New Year began on March 25.

    That is the exact time of the year when the Indian New Year begins.

    In 1752 by an act of Parliament England arbitrarily changed over to January 1 as the New Year Day.

    As March 25 marks the beginning of the Indian Vikram Samvat it is plausible that England was part of Vikramaditya’s Indian empire.

    Please read my article Vikramaditya Date and His World Kingdom

    Reference and citations.

    https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/catastrophic-english-christianity-as-a-vedic-cult-2/

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_calendar

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

    Beginning in 1582, the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian in Catholic countries.

    This change was also implemented in Protestant and Orthodox countries some time later.

    In England and Wales, Ireland, and the British colonies, the change of the start of the year and the changeover from the Julian calendar occurred in 1752 under the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.
    ….
    From the 12th century to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March (Lady Day) so for example the execution of Charles I was recorded at the time in Parliament as happening on 30 January 1648 (Old Style).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates

    Vikram Samvat or Bikram Samvat is a calendar era used in a Hindu calendar.

    It uses lunar months and solar sidereal year.
    …
    The new year begins with the first day after the new moon, in the month of Chaitra, Chaitra Shuddha 1 or Chaitra Shukla Paksha Prathama; which usually falls in March–April in the Gregorian calendar.
    …
    The Vikrama Samvat is said to have been founded by the legendary Indian king Vikramaditya, variously considered to be a partly historical figure or a purely mythical character.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Samvat

    According to the popular tradition, Vikramaditya started the Vikrama Samvat era in 57 BCE, after defeating the Shakas.

    For this reason, those who believe him to be based on a distinct historical figure place him around the 1st century BCE.

    However, this era is mentioned as “Vikrama Samvat” only after the 9th century CE.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikramaditya