[Advaita-l] Date of ramas birth

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l wrote:

> Recently using an astronomical software people have given shri Rama's birth
> around 5000bce. They have got that date by using the descriptions of
> planets and moon, season etc mentioned in ramayana. But won't this
> contradict the fact that treta yuga was more than 10 lakh years ago?
> Or is it possible that the descriptions of planets and moon repeat
> themselves?

Yes you have spotted the problem with all these calculations.  As the 
planets move in fixed orbits, they will reach the same positions and 
conjunctions over an over again.  Yet some people will continue to waste 
time on futile and pathetic attempts to appear "scientific" rather than 
actually learn the meaning of the Ramayana.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>