When was Lord Buddha born?

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*VIJAYAWADA, India* -- When was Lord Buddha born? Or when did he

attain

Nirvana? The answers to such puzzling historical questions may be

found in

the texts of puranas and scriptures.

However, author Kota Nityananda Sastry in his latest book 'Age of Lord

Buddha' makes a critical appreciation of available data compiled by

Western

historians who, he thinks, made a mess of Indian history.

 

The Cambridge and Oxford histories of India accept 483 B.C as the

date of

Buddha's nirvana. But, William Jones, on the basis of Chinese and

Tibetan

records infers that Buddha lived in the 11th century B.C.

 

Historian Fleet, who makes a study of 'Rajatarangini', thinks that

Buddha

lived in the 17th century B.C. Chinese monk Fa-Hien puts Buddha's

Nirvana at

1050 B.C. These contradictory theories may confuse one altogether.

 

The history that Buddha lived in the 5th century B.C was propounded by

E.JRapson who writes that the exact date of Buddha's Nirvana is not

known and

hence the popularly accepted year of Buddha's Nirvana is imaginary.

 

Sastry quotes his father Kota Venkatachelam's treatise 'Age of Buddha,

Mililnda & Amtiyoka', which establishes that Buddha lived between 1887

B.Cand 1807

B.C.

 

Venkatachelam's book 'The Plot in Indian Chronology' had gone into the

history and the missing links in the chronology of events in Indian

history.

 

Sastry states that Western scholars arbitrarily skipped 12 centuries

of

Indian history because their 'hypothesis' about Alexander's invasion

did not

match with centuries-old Indian chronology.

 

The author asserts that Buddha was the contemporary of Kshemajit,

Bimbisara

and Ajatasatru, the 31st, 32nd and 33rd kings of Magadh respectively.

This

has been corroborated by the Puranic as well as Buddhist historical

evidence, he adds.

 

Ultimately, Dr Sastry quoting evidences comes to the conviction that

Lord

Buddha was born in 1887 B.C and attained Nirvana in 1807 B.C.

 

Sastry can be contacted at 23-34-18, II floor, Manepallivari Street,

S.NPuam, Vijayawada-11.

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"koenraad_elst" <koenraad.elst

Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:43 am

Re: Date of the Buddha, 17th century BCE koenraad_elst

"amsharanx"

<asharan@e...> wrote:

>

> Sethna in his book also had very different dates about the Indian

> History. If I remember correctly, his dates were 600 years earlier

> i.e. according to him, Buddha would be in 1100 BC.

>

> I did an independent astronomical study based on writings in Bramhi

> script at Udayagiri in Madhya Pradesh near Bhopal. In fact, I went

> there in March, 2005. It was the date when Chandragupta II ( the

Gupta

> King ) was there. It turned out to be 26th June, 402 AD which goes

> along the dates mentioned in the British Indian History.

>

> One has to be careful when one goes by the Puranic Tales.

>

 

By Puranic chronology, the Buddha's date would be even earlier, 1700

BC or so. The 1100 BC date is a Buddhist tradition upheld in

Chinese-Japanese Buddhist scholarship. Confirming the British date

for the Gupta dynasty strictly doesn't prove anything about the

Buddha's date, but I'll agree that it undermines the general case

for a higher chronology, which would have the Guptas replace the

Maurya in 300 BC and push the Mauryas back to 900 BC and the Buddha

even further.

 

 

> But, Witzel's Problem is quite different. He and his ideologists do

> not accept scientifically ( astronomically ) arrived dates also and

> call these as Voodoo or some thing like this - techniques.

>

 

I noticed several times that, like others in his camp, he

misunderstands astronomical concepts. I'll look up some examples.

 

KE

 

> *VIJAYAWADA, India* -- When was Lord Buddha born? Or when did he

> attain

> Nirvana? The answers to such puzzling historical questions may be

> found in

> the texts of puranas and scriptures.

> However, author Kota Nityananda Sastry in his latest book 'Age of

Lord

> Buddha' makes a critical appreciation of available data compiled by

> Western

> historians who, he thinks, made a mess of Indian history.

>

> The Cambridge and Oxford histories of India accept 483 B.C as the

> date of

> Buddha's nirvana. But, William Jones, on the basis of Chinese and

> Tibetan

> records infers that Buddha lived in the 11th century B.C.

>

> Historian Fleet, who makes a study of 'Rajatarangini', thinks that

> Buddha

> lived in the 17th century B.C. Chinese monk Fa-Hien puts Buddha's

> Nirvana at

> 1050 B.C. These contradictory theories may confuse one altogether.

>

> The history that Buddha lived in the 5th century B.C was propounded

by

> E.JRapson who writes that the exact date of Buddha's Nirvana is not

> known and

> hence the popularly accepted year of Buddha's Nirvana is imaginary.

>

> Sastry quotes his father Kota Venkatachelam's treatise 'Age of

Buddha,

> Mililnda & Amtiyoka', which establishes that Buddha lived between

1887

> B.Cand 1807

> B.C.

>

> Venkatachelam's book 'The Plot in Indian Chronology' had gone into

the

> history and the missing links in the chronology of events in Indian

> history.

>

> Sastry states that Western scholars arbitrarily skipped 12

centuries

> of

> Indian history because their 'hypothesis' about Alexander's

invasion

> did not

> match with centuries-old Indian chronology.

>

> The author asserts that Buddha was the contemporary of Kshemajit,

> Bimbisara

> and Ajatasatru, the 31st, 32nd and 33rd kings of Magadh

respectively.

> This

> has been corroborated by the Puranic as well as Buddhist historical

> evidence, he adds.

>

> Ultimately, Dr Sastry quoting evidences comes to the conviction

that

> Lord

> Buddha was born in 1887 B.C and attained Nirvana in 1807 B.C.

>

> Sastry can be contacted at 23-34-18, II floor, Manepallivari Street,

> S.NPuam, Vijayawada-11.

> http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,2190,0,0,1,0

>