Rashi mantra in the VJ is spurioius!

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Dear

friends,

Jai Shri

Ram!

In spite of

all the hair splitting by SKB, the one and only question that I had asked still

remains unanswered, and I repeat it for the third time:

Why did Bhatta-jyotisha-acharjya

advise Shri K. K. Mehrotra to some how or the other get hold of a copy of INSA

edition of the Vedanga Jyotisha to verify for himself as to how the

commentators/translators of that edition had listed the spurious Rashi mantra

as No. 5 in the Yajur-Vedanga-Jyotish (sic!) and not declared it spurious,

if he had not seen it for himself! Did SKB tell a lie that he had seen it

himself and that is why he was sure about it or was it that he had " seen

it " through his " parokshya knowledge " i.e. hallucination

and acted accordingly?

Secondly, I

am not aware that the Gita Press has published complete Yogavasishtha

Maharamayana----the most wonderful book that India, nay, the whole

world could ever produce---or at least that I have seen till date----with

translation in five volumes. The Gita Press had published a condensed

Yogavasishtha in Hindi (single volume) without Sanskrit Shlokas a couple of

decades back. Maybe I am wrong, but before I start looking for the

Gita Press edition---I have three editions of the complete work by different

publishers, besides a Persian Version by Dara Shikoh by Aligarh Muslim

University-----with me already--- I want to make SKB sure whether he has really

purchased the Gita Press edition of Yogavasishtha---five volumes---- or has

he been overpowered, as usual, by his HALLUCINAITON which he calls

parokshya knowledge!

One thing I

can assure you! SKB has not read the Yogavasishtha at all! Maybe he

has just heard its name! He has not even purchased it---at least not the

Gita Press edition of five vols.! If he had read the Yogavasishtha, he

would not be having hallucinations and would never call himself a " Vedic

astrologer " least of all call predictive gimmicks as Vedic astrology.

On the other hand, he would advise everybody to shun predictive gimmicks,

because that is what Vasishtha Muni had said umpteen number of times in the

Yogavasishtha!

Jai Shri

Ram!

A K Kaul

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In vedic_research_institute , Sunil Bhattacharjya

<sunil_bhattacharjya wrote:

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> Dear friends,

>

> Shri Kaul says :

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> Quote

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> All that Shri Bhattacharjya wants to prove is that except for him and some

" Vedic astrologers " , all the scholars of India like S B Dikshit and

Dr. Kuppanna Shastry and Dr. Suresh Chandra Mishra and even Somakar or even

Gita Press translators of the Valmiki Ramayana etc. etc. were/are good for

nothing fellows and were/are influenced by Max Muller's chronology!

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> Unquote

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> Nothing can be further from the truth. Where did I say except for me and

some Vedic astrologers? So many scholars (including those who do may not believe

in astrology) reject the AIT - Chronology and not me and some Vedic astrologers

alone. There have been lot of research lately and Shri Kaul seem to have

been sleeping. Shri Kaul should wake up and look at the findings of the

recent researches and the archaeological findings. He should also look at

the deliberations in the different fora / . I said that the people

like Dixit might have been honest. They had not had the benefit of seeing the

results of the post-independence research. They were taught only what the

colonial historians wanted them to know. The scholars like Dixit did not know

about the colonial distortions of Ancient Indian History and that was not their

fault. I respect people like Dixit and respectfully point out where they erred.

>

> The translator of the Balakanda, whoever he was, had erred. That is

not the fault of the Gita Press. That translator did not understand the nuances

of astrology. The Gita Press authorities does not check each and every lines

translated. I have purchased several gita press books such as the

five-volume Yoga-Vashishtha Ramayana and two-volume two-volume Bhagavat purana

andther books. I have found the translation mistakes here and there. Just

because it is from the G someoIta press i shall not accept that translation

will be without any mistake.

>

> Now my friends, if Shri Kaul thinks that the Max Muller's date of

Rig Veda in 1200 BCE

> based on the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is correct he is at liberty

> to have that view. According to Max Muller the Epic age was several

centuries fter the

> date of the Veda and this means the Ramayana dates are much after

1200 BCE.

> If you accept these dates then of course you can deduce that the

> Indians might have learnt astrology from the Greeks. If you wish to

believe in what Mr. Kaul says you can go ahead.

>

> Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

>

> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

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>

>

> --- On Sun, 10/4/09, Krishen jyotirved wrote:

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> Krishen jyotirved

> Re: Rashi mantra in the Vedanga Jyotisha is

spurious!

>

> Sunday, October 4, 2009, 8:58 AM

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