News Article:'Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC'

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'Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC'

Times of India.

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'Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC'

SUNIT BEZBAROOWA & ARVIND JOSHI

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2003 02:12:42 AM ]

 

"Ram was and is for real. He was born on January 10, 5114 BC," Saroj

Bala, IRS, Commisioner of Income Tax says, calmly, with the assurance

of one who has tangible facts.

Taking on the contemporary historical interpretation of Ramayana as a

religio-literary text, and Lord Ram as a semi-mythical figure, is

this unassuming person who zealously devotes her spare time to

research in history when she's not playing the tax mandarin.

And she has chosen the unusual combination of astronomy, Internet and

literary texts to provide us a startling picture of Shri Ram. This

might change the way we look at history and religion. We might refuse

to begin reading Indian history from that comma, or hyphen

called 'Indus Valley.' We might have to stretch the beginnings by a

few thousand years because, as Saroj Bala says - Ram was born on

January 10, 5114 BC.

Excerpts of an interview with the lady who has the intellectual

courage to go beyond the obvious:

 

What got it all started…

 

As an amateur historian, I've always been interested in Indian

culture and heritage. I am proud that we're Indians and the products

of one of the oldest civilisations. However, British rule changed us;

we developed a sense of being somehow inferior.

But I could never reconcile to theories like the theory of Aryan

invasion to India in 1500 BC. That would make Indian civilization

only 3,500 years old.

And if you choose archaeology to dig beyond 7,000 years, you'd have

to dig more than 60 metres - something not being done in India as

yet. So, archaeology is not the only answer. There's a lot of

objective research of another kind that needs to be carried out in

earnest.

So, how can we say Ram was born on January 10, 5114 B.C…

My colleague Pushkar Bhatnagar of Indian Revenue Service is the real

originator of this theory. He acquired a software named Planetarium,

used to predict planetary movements and configurations.

By entering in this software, precise details of planetary positions

vis-à-vis zodiac constellations described by Maharishi Valmiki in the

Valmiki Ramayan, it is possible to determine important dates starting

from Shri Ram's birth-date to the date of his return to Ayodhya.

More than just Ram's date of birth…

The results have not just thrown up Shri Ram's date of birth; it has

actually traced the entire sequence of incidents throughout Ramayan.

Pushkar Bhatnagar starts with tracing Ram's birth. Then he moves

ahead in the narrative. Valmiki Ramayan states Ram was 25-years-old

when he went to exile. When the configuration of planets described at

this point is fed into the software, the date thrown up matches

perfectly with Ram's age at that juncture of his life - 25 years.

Again in the 13th year of Ram's exile, during a war with Khar and

Dushan, Valmiki describes a solar eclipse. The software proves that

on that given day there was indeed a solar eclipse (with Mars in the

middle). This solar eclipse and the particular configuration of

planets could be seen from Panchavati (longitude and latitude plainly

shown in the software).

 

Hanuman Saw 8 Constellations while flying to Lanka…

 

In the Sunderkand, when Valmiki describes Hanuman crossing the sea

and returning from Lanka to Rameshwaram, he gives details of 8

constellations. Usually, one can see not more than 6 constellations

at a given point of time. But since Hanuman was flying across, and it

must have taken him approximately 4 hrs to get there, he could see 8

constellations - in two hours one constellation would have moved out

of sight and another become visible. So, in a period of 4 hrs he saw

8 constellations!

 

Historicising Shri Ram. Man or God…

 

After researching on Shri Ram, I do believe he's a man who walked the

earth in flesh and blood. There is an essential difference between

the Valmiki Ramayana and the Tulsi Ramayana. Tulsidas was a devotee

who looked up to Ram, but Valmiki was a contemporary. Valmiki has

written Ram's life-history, as a biographer does - he's a

contemporary of Ram, and this is not very different from what happens

all over the world. Kings have always had their life-history written.

The submerged bridge…

Recently, NASA had put pictures on the Internet of a man-made bridge,

the ruins of which are submerged in Palk Strait between Rameshwaram

and Sri Lanka. This clearly should be treated as historical evidence

that corroborates its mention in Va

lmiki Ramayana.

The puzzle of Indian history…

The presence of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Vedas cannot be explained

by the short period between the decline of the Indus valley

civilization and the Rig Vedic period. A civilization cannot suddenly

burst into advanced writing.

One needs to look at various sources of history to re-build it.

Especially when looking at ancient history. One needs to excavate,

look at literature, ancient texts, astronomy.

Government apathy to archaeological diggings and investigation in

this direction…

There's been a very strange development in the media and the people

of India. We have started seeing ancient India as something

equivalent to the word 'Hindu'. The very word Hindu came into

circulation only after the advent of Islam in India. In Ramayana and

the Vedas , there is no mention of the word 'Hindu'. At the most,

there is only mention of terms like 'Aryavrat' or 'Bharatvarsh' and

residents here are called as 'Aryans'. Since centuries, Christians,

Muslims, Sikhs have been living in this country and it's their land

as much as it is to a Hindu. Anything that has happened on this land

in the past is their common heritage. But, unfortunately, politicians

with vested interests have divided the people on artificial religious

lines and making it appear that anything related to ancient India was

perhaps related to Hindu, which is not the case and should not be the

case.

There has never been any strong will…

It is not that researches have been not taken place. There has been

excellent work done by noted historians like Sir Alexander Cunningham

and Dr Lal. Cunningham has written as many as 21 volumes on ancient

Indian history. But one needs special permissions to access these

texts.

Unfortunately, Cunningham's work that has very important information

has not seen the light of the day. Dr. Lal has pictured the ancient

city of Dwarka and it can be read in 'The lost city of Dwarka'. He

has listed out 1000 artifacts. Only 9 crores needed to be sanctioned

by the government in placing a transparent tube to the sea-bed that

could allow people to see for themselves the wonder that was Dwarka.

And now people equate the sum total of ancient history to 'a temple

or no-temple' at Ayodhya.

Delay in research also because science hadn't arrived…

Without the aid of science it is practically impossible to manually

calculate the exact planetary configuration 7, 000 years back. It is

science which is going to validate our history and prove that it is

much older than 3, 500 years.

What would be the implications of your research on the society?

I seriously feel that there can only be positive effects of my

research. In fact, Indians should seriously re-look how old is our

history and culture. This is not the end of the research; it's just

the beginning. People should be encouraged to do more in-depth

research by all means such as archaeology, dating methods and

oceanography.

Max Mueller had come up with the theory that Aryans had come to India

in 1500 B.C. In the Internet, Max Mueller Foundations says that that

they have re-looked at this theory and is of the opinion that this

theory is no longer valid because Indian history is much older than

that period. It's just that people have to open up their minds and

find out the answers for themselves.