Narrating Ramayana through scientific evidence

Chandigarh, April 24

“Questioning Ramayana and Mahabharata is like questioning the very existence of India. Ramayana and Mahabharata are the documented evidence for Rama and Krishna.”

This was stated by Dr Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, today. He was delivering a lecture organised by Chandigarh Vighyan Parishad at Panjab University, Chandigarh, on the topic “Ramayana Retold Through Scientific Evidences”.

Dr Tankeshwar said in no other nation in the world, true history was so meticulously documented. “The important aspect about the Ramayana is that when Valmiki composed the epic, he made it with many proofs. He packed so much information about various planetary positions of those days, the geography of the areas mentioned in the epic, seasonal events and about the genealogy of various kings that it is virtually a no-brainer to establish the dates on which those events occurred.”

Astronomically backed calculations and planetarium software have proved that events narrated in Valmiki Ramayana actually occurred around 7,000 years back and they can be sequentially dated. Even genealogy charts, compared with genetic studies, support the astronomical date sequence of the Ramayana.

Through the use of modern technology, the perception of Indian archaeologists has changed; they have proved indigenous origin of civilisation in the Indian sub-continent. tns