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Following are the dates of few events from the Ramayana as per Astronomical Dating of the Ramayan :

Rama's Birth Date - 4th December 7323 B.C


Rama-Seeta Married - 7th April 7307 B.C


Rama Exiled - 29th November 7306 B.C.


Hanuman enters Lanka - 1st September 7292 B.C


Hanuman meets Seeta - 2nd September 7292 B.C.


Seetu (Bridge) built - 26-30th Oct. 7292 B.C
on the ocean


The War begins - 3rd November 7292 B.C


Kumbhakarna is killed - 7th November 7292 B.C.


Ravana is killed by Rama - 15th November 7292 B.C.


Rama returns to Ayodhya - 6th December 7272 B.C.

Reference : here

ARCHAEO-ASTRONOMY : Can we give a date to Rama?

The concept of describing dates astronomically has been a practice in India since days bygone and thus lot of Indian literature are embedded with such astronomical data. This is a technique of charting the future or past sky using a scientific tool. This tool helps to arrive at planetary positions given a date in future or past and vice-versa i.e. given a set of planetary configurations, arrive at the date either in future or in the past. Such tools are collectively called Planetarium software. There are probably over 50 such different software available. Each software can be used specifically for a particular application, like, plotting the current night sky chart, predicting eclispes and the likes. When spacecrafts are launched to visit far-off planets like Jupiter and Saturn, it would take a travel time of well over 12 years for the spacecraft to reach these planets. This software helps determine orbital positions of the planets when the spacecraft reaches their orbits. For this, a high level of precision is required in the software. Unlike any other civilization so far, the literature of the Indian civilization is characterised for being embedded with night sky observations. Feeding the observations of the planetary configurations into the Planetarium software gives us the English calender dates when these configurations could have occured in the past. When these dates are logically arranged along with the events, it helps us to scientifically assign dates to events mentioned in Indian legends and historical texts, and validate them. Thus the astronomical remains left behind in our literature can be analysed scientifically to arrive at historic dates for various events. This approach is parallel to archaeology where physical remains are analysed to arrive at historic dates and hence gives rise to a new branch of scientific dating which may be called Archaeo-astronomy. Various modern day researchers have made use of this software to arrive at such historic dates for various events described in the Indian literature. We have collated the outputs of such credible work which are worthy of standing up to cross validation. In the context of the Historicity of Rama, the works of Shri. Pushkar Bhatnagar, as brought out in the book "Dating the Era of Lord Ram" form the basis of what is presented here to understand the dates of the events in Rama’s lifetime. This particular text, Ramayana, when analysed from a scientific perspective using such Archeo-Astronomy techniques, shows tremendous internal consistency between the events described astronomically and the storyline based elapse time between those events. This method puts forth the below mentioned dates for the events that occur in the Ramanaya legend.

Sri Rama Navami - Birth day : 10th January 5114 BCE

Birth of Bharatha : 11th January 5114 BCE

Pre coronation eve : 4th January 5089 BCE

Khar, Dushan episode : 7th October 5077 BCE

Vali Vadham : 3rd April 5076 BCE

Hanuman's Visit to Lanka : 12th September 5076 BCE

Hanuman's Return from Lanka : 14th September 5076 BCE

Army March to Lanka : 20th September 5076 BCE

Source : here

It is indeed noteworthy to observe that these dates are internally consistent. While the purpose of this software was different, it has now thrown open a potential for a new branch of science which can be named Archeo Astronomy as just like archeology it can help date events as described in literature. This software has now become declassified and is available for public use. This modern method of – Archeo Astronomy is still not accepted or practiced by traditional historians as it requires knowledge of traditional astronomy, mathematics as well modern day sky chart reading techniques all of which go into the realm of science. This branch of archeology requires and will create a new breed of archeologists and has the potential to date more events from our vast store of literature than traditional archeology can.

OK, even if these texts are to be considered historic texts and the events mentioned therein to be dated as close to 7000 years ago based on Archeo Astronomy, there seems to be an inconsistency with the time period pronounced as 17,50,000 years ago, based on NASA’s satellite image? Why this mismatch? I fact being an author and researcher I strongly do believe that the Setu to Lanka was present before Ramayana. Now question arises if it is then we have to check whether there was any civilization 17,50,000 years ago who could really develop such long bridge?


Physical Observation : Today the bridge measures approx 35 km in length Vs 3.5km in breadth from Dhanushkodi to Talaimannar which is a 100:10 ratio.


Throughout history, there has been catastrohic events (i.e. ice ages, extinction, etc.). Could it be possible that with the 4.5 billion year old planet (oldest rocks on Earth date to around that time) we are living on it could have had at one time ancient civilizations, ones that had a superior intelligence like or even greater than our own?

If you think that creation recycling is possible then please refer to the following :

Earth Born : 4,500,000,000 years ago

Life Started : 4,000,000,000

Last Universal Ancestor : 3,900,000,000

First appearance of oxygen creating bacteria : 3,000,000,000

First Appearance of oxygen using bacteria : 2,500,000,000

Multicelluar life appears : 1,000,000,000

First vertebrates : 500,000,000

First plants on land : 475,000,000

Evolution of the egg, first reptiles : 300,000,000

Dinosaurs extinct : 65,000,000

Man seperates from great apes : 5,000,000

Man uses tools : 2,000,000

Modern humans appear : 100,000

First settlements : 15,000

According to theory, it took 500 million years for life to start, but for the next 3 billion years, only single cells existed. Seeing as though Earth is 4.5 billion years old, for 3/4 of its life, only single celled life existed.

Point 001. Man seperates from great apes : 5,000,000

Point 002. Man uses tools : 2,000,000

Point 003. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago and the bridge´s age is also almost equivalent.

Point 004. Modern humans appear : 100,000

Thus points 1,2,3 and point 4 contradictory. Lord Rama was educated - he was modern - he knew Sanskrit. Modern human appears 100,000 years back. So how the bridge took place 1,750,000 years ago? I think Ramayana took place around 8000 years back. Lord Rama just used it and renovated before the time of war.


Again I mention about the traditional timescale. The traditional timescale of the yugas suggests that the Satya Yuga lasts 1,728,000 years, the Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years, the Dvapara Yuga 864,000 years and the Kali Yuga 432,000 years. As this list indicates, each yuga is progressively shorter. In total, a complete cycle constitutes 4,320,000 years, a period of time which is known as a mahayuga (or "great Yuga"). One thousand mahayugas are said to constitute a day in the life of the creator god Brahma, also known as a kalpa, which is the fundamental cosmic cycle in Hinduism. You multiply 4,320,000 years by thousand and the result is 432 billion years nearly equal to 4,500,000,000 years i.e. the age of earth. In each kalpa earth destroys according to Purana. Since our earth's current age is greater than 1000 mahayugas = 1 kalpa = 4.32 billion years = 432 crores years so our earth could be destroyed meanwhile according to the facts described in Purana.

But it didn't happen so.

Next Lord Rama used so many tools in the war and again to mention that Purana says that Satya Yuga lasts 1,728,000 years, the Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years, the Dvapara Yuga 864,000 years and the Kali Yuga 432,000 years. Point to note that Matsya (the fish), Kurma (the turtle), Varaha (the boar) and Narasimha (the man-lion), the first four incarnations of Vishnu, appear in this epoch i.e. in Satya Yuga. It means that that time there was no sign of human. Man seperates from great apes : 5,000,000 years ago. So if from the birth of earth yuga calculation starts then Stya Yuga started 4,500,000,000 years ago and ended 4,500,000,000 - 1,728,000 = 3,998,272,000 years ago. So 3,998,272,000 years ago was it possible for Matsya (the fish), Kurma (the turtle), Varaha (the boar) and Narasimha (the man-lion) to occur? And clearly Narasimha (the man-lion) doesn't exist anymore. It has been a rare animal many years back. We know that oxygen creating bacteria appeared 3,000,000,000 years back. So it is not possible. So the way we count years can't be used in order to understand the traditional timescale described in Purana.

One more point.

Mahayuga consists of 4,320,000 years. Each Mahayuga consists four yugas and from Treta Yuga we use to find out the traces of human. Since earth's present age is 4.5 billion years so more than 10 mahayugas are supposed to take place. Think about the first Mahayuga's Treta Yuga. Did any human born that time? Never. Not possible.

So the traditional timescale must have spiritual meanings. The inner meanings are hidden. Suddenly I have found that 30x60x24x10=432000 (span of Kalyuga) . 432000x2=864000 (span of DwaparaYuga). 432000x3=1296000 (span of Treta Yuga) 432000x4=1728000 (span of Satya Yuga).

Span of (satya:treta:dwapara:kal) yuga = 4:3:2:1. Total span of these four ages = 4,320,000 years. Man seperates from great apes : 5,000,000.

From this thing I conclude that calculation of Yuga started from that day when man seperates from great apes i.e. 5,000,000 years ago. The authors who mentioned the traditional timescale, they must have started from that age. Before that probably they didn't consider.

So now one thing is clear from when the Yuga calculation started.

Now we can take into account the time period pronounced as 17,50,000 years ago, based on NASA’s satellite image. It is possible.

Assumption : Satya Yuga started 5000000 years back and ended 5000000 - 1728000 = 3272000 years back. Treta started 3272000 years ago and ended 3272000 - 129600 = 1976000 years ago and during this period Ramayana took place. This calculation nearly supports the knowledge that Man uses tools : 2,000,000. During the war many tools were used. Dwapara started 1976000 years ego and ended 1976000 - 864000 = 1112000 years ago and kalyuga started since then whose span is 432000 years. It seems that Kalyuga has ended and we are presently at Satya Yuga. But no. As per the characteristics of the epoch, the inhabitants never die until they are wiling to do that, I think that Kali Yuga is not ended. It is the fagend. Some residuals in the calculation i.e. some lakh of years is not a major fault when we are considering 1/2 billion years. Again I have started the calculation from the time when man seperates from great apes i.e. 5,000,000 years back. And one mahayuga consists of 4320000 years. So at the first stage of back tracing I have taken 7 lakhs of years as error factor.

Finally I find it is very unnatural that Ramayana took place 17 lakhs of years back. The humans were not so much advanced. How could they handle equipments like arrow-bow, gada etc by their grips? How could they invent Missiles? It is said that Valmiki wrote Ramayana during the time it happened. How funny is it? Did we know to write epics, novels, poems 17 lakhs years back?

Never. If we believe that then our Bio - Science is wrong. Whatever we know - all are wrong. So long long span of Mahayuga, Kalpa has other inner meaning. I believe that each yuga consists 5000 years. Thus Ramayana held nearly 8000 years back. Against this I will surely post some logics.