Celebrating 5,125th birthday of Lord Krishna
Celebrating 5,125th birthday of Lord Krishna
By D K Hari and D K Hema Hari - CHENNAI
Published: 27th August 2013 09:26 AM
Last Updated: 27th August 2013 09:26 AM
The people of this country never had any doubts about the historicity of Krishna until the colonial invaders projected him as a mythical figure cooked up by wonderful stories.
The science of Archeo-Astronomy has enabled us to go beyond the boundaries of conventional archaeology in tracing the historicity of some well known personages of this land, such as Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira and Shankara. Planetary configurations mentioned in the ancient scriptures pertaining to major events and personages connected, help us date events that happened around these personages, centuries and millenia ago.
As per the scriptures, Lord Krishna was born around midnight. That night was the eighth phase of the moon known as Ashtami Tithi. The moon was near Vrshabha, the bull, i.e the Taurus constellation that houses the star Rohini. The star Rohini is known as Aldeberan in modern astronomy. The month was Shravana, one of the 12 months in the Indian calendar.
This detail combined with details of sky configurations for events that happened around Krishna’s lifetimes, namely the Mahabharata, leads us to the exact birth date for Krishna. Such a search leads us to July 27, 3112 BCE as Krishna’s date of birth in the Gregorian Calendar.
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