Indra and Vrtra

[ravi chandrasekhara]

Dear list Members,

What is "wrong" with accepting that Vaiwasvata
Manvantar began 120 million yeras ago.  I dont think
anyone can "prove" or "not prove" humans existed then.
 There have been so many changes throghout the aeons
of time.  Sri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati (former
Kanchi Shankaracharya) in Hindu Dharma has made
references to events occurring "millions" of years
ago.  Swami Prakashanand Saraswati in his book The
True Religion and History of India has given a list of
events that occurred millions of years ago.  In
addition many events took place as celestial events
rather than terrestrial.  Our shastras tend to give
more weight to divine events and moral lessons behind
events than exact dates but that doesnt mean the
events are false or did not happen millions of years
ago.

Ravi Chandrasekhara MD
--- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Shrinivas Gadkari wrote:
>
> > Would like to mention that Nahusha was the 2/3
> generations from
> > the vaivastha manu, born after the great flood
> that occured at the
> > end of the last ice age.
> >
> > So this fact also somewhat supports the ice age
> interpretation.
> >
>
> If we follow that line of thinking, Manu Vaivasvata
> was the first king of
> the satyayuga.  If we accept that the Kaliyuga began
> in 3101 BC, that
> would place him around 3,000,000 BC.  Was there an
> Ice Age back then?
> Were there even any people back then?
>
> Actually I just thought about it and it's even
> earlier.  This is the 28th
> Kaliyuga of this manvantara so push the data back to
> approximately 119,000,000 BC
>
> We have to be careful in interpreting shastras
> literally or we will end up
> with absurdities like those Christians who think the
> earth is only 6,000
> years old because of the Bible.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> It's a girl! See the pictures -
http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/


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