Zitat von Vedanta am 12. April 2019, 20:52 Uhr

Shri Ramachandras Appearance Day

Today Shri Bhagavan appeared in His form as King Shri Ramachandra in Ayodya, Bharat (today's India).

And when exactly?

Well, according to Shrimad Bhagavatam (Canto 9) and Shri Vishvanath Chakravarthy Thakur's commentary, His appearance took place in a Treta-yuga, more precisely in the Treta-yuga of the 24^th cycle of our present Manu called Vaivasvata Manu or Shraddhadeva. Since we are currently in the 28^th cycle of the same Manu, the appearance of Shri Rama took place 4 complete Yuga cycles (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali) ago. For the calculation I've used the popular value for a complete 4 yuga cycle, namely 4,320,000 years, multiplied it by the factor 4 and then subtracted the Satya-yuga (with popular 1,728,000 years) as well as the Treta-yuga (only half to get the mean value, i.e. 648,000 years). According to this calculation method, Shri Ramachandra appeared 15 million years ago ±648,000 years.

However, I now have some doubts about the initial parameters, i.e. the durations of the respective yugas. (This is at first only my personal opinion or assumption based on various researches and must of course still be clarified with Guru and Shastra; all of you are welcome to comment).

One thing that made me suspicious in a related area is the modern interpretation of the Vedic Yojana measure. This is usually given (as in the ubiquitous Wikipedia) as 5 miles or 8 kilometres long. But if you use this conversion factor for distance information from the Ramayana or the Shrimad Bhagavatam, you get results that in many cases obviously go far beyond the target, in some cases even verifiably so. Concrete example:

Ramsetu

Ramsetu is Shri Rama's famous bridge to Lanka, which today is even clearly visible in its outline by means of satellite images. The length of this bridge is given as 100 Yojanas in the Ramayana. 100 Yojanas times 8 kilometers would be 800 km long. This is of course absurd, because the distance between India and Sri Lanka is „only“ 30 km.

But now it is so that the conversion factor for the unit of length Yojana in the English colonial times was obviously fixed again, just on said 5 miles. But before that, in traditional India, the value for 1 Yojana was about 300 meters.

The pre-colonial Indian linear measure reckoning table was as follows:

24 angula = 1 muzham
4 muzham = 1 dhanu
2 dhanu = 1 danda
50 danda = 1 kooppidu
4 kooppidu = 1 yojana

One yojana is the longest distance traveled by sound – of a call from a tall place; the sound distance (300 metres or 1050 feet).

Source

And now it's all making sense: 300 meters multiplied by 100 Yojanas results in exactly 30 km - et voilà!

Finally, I would like to share with you two videos about this bridge, which both inspired me very much:

Ramsetu – Scientific Explanation (2013)

Ramsetu – Animation, NASA-Photos (2018)

Jai Shri Ram!!