When Did The Mahabharata War Happen?: The Mystery of Arundhati

Being a history buff, I had recently enrolled for a course on China offered by Harvard on edx.org. Archaeologically there is nothing so far to suggest a Xia dynasty existed as the Chinese sacred books suggest. They also were a civilization that came from outside China rather than indigenous. But, BUT, it was put across in such a way that "archaeologically we aren't there yet’ and also while talking about the history of China, the history as documented within China - through their sacred books was taken pretty seriously. Not simply brushed aside as myth. Another thing that stood out was that, in the Chinese education system, while the archaeological facts and the fact that archaeologically the civilization had external origins was mentioned, the history books had the version as suggested by the Chinese sacred books also as history and not as myth. In other words, they didn't simply rubbish their traditional wisdom aside because archaeology isn't there yet to corroborate it. Cut to India: Almost all the conventional wisdom and associated literature - namely the Vedas, Upanishads and the Itihasas are a myth in popular perception. Or history books teach us likewise and the historians worldwide have absolutely no respect whatsoever for our books.This book by Nilesh just goes on to show the hidden truth in those texts. The author takes the time to build the foundation on the Indian system and calendars season etc that will help anyone understand the Indian system better(which will include most of the Indians). I loved the chapter on the star Abhijeet. This is something 99% of the Indians wouldn't know. This chapter is enough to show that there is much more to the ancient texts than mantras. The author then sets out very methodically to lay out all the 90 odd astronomical observations in Mahabharatha and derives at his conclusion. The date of Mahabharatha Per Se may be agreeable to you or not. But there is more to it. The fact that Mahabharatha has this many astronomical observation so cogently captured in it is itself a fact that is lost on many. If people can appreciate that alone more than anything else will be a worthwhile takeaway from this book. That is one good reason why you should buy this book. The author goes about the entire thing with an almost surgical precision. Very easy to understand. The book is well laid out. Arrived on time and is a timeless classic.

It's not often that you read a book outside of academia, which provides you a wealth of information and value, while building your curiosity. Nilesh Nilkanth Oak has done just that, with his rigorous and scientific method of approach in ascertaining the date and time period of the Mahabharata war.The author, like many previous Mahabharata researchers, has taken the astronomical references provided within the Mahabharata text itself, to determine this. The book reads like a research paper, focusing on various aspects - his approach and methodology, assumptions, corroboration of star and planetary movements obtained through software simulations, with the actual scriptures, dissecting various other proposals, conducting falsifiability tests, and fitting a timeline which does not ignore or explain away any of the references.It becomes clear very early on that this is an extremely tedious process and requires expertise in various fields. The author does his best to give us a primer on different astronomy basics, timelines and translations of all the references he has used. Even without his conclusions and assertions, the book stands out as an excellent reference to the events which happened during the war.The crux of the book, as the title suggests, is "The Mystery of Arundathi", which is the motion of star Arundathi ahead of Vasistha, something which wasn't explained by any other researchers so far. The author, by good fortune, diligence and with the help of technology, has proven this occurrence did indeed happen, thus giving him an upper and lower bound on the time period of the war, from which he built his case.As I read the book, I had the nagging feeling that the date proposed by the author, while extremely accurate in terms of corroborating references within the text, goes against almost all of traditional scholarship in terms of civilizational development of humans. The author does address this at the end of the book, as a reason to explore our traditional methods of archaeological studies. However, that explanation seemed a bit unsatisfactory to me.It was fascinating to read about the extent of detail recorded before, during and after these events, by ancient astronomers. No doubt, it has piqued my interest to learn and explore the Mahabharata further. And I feel, as stated by the author, his success lies in piquing that interest among the readers of this book.

Invaders of India tried to dismiss Maha-Bharata as MYTHOLOGY. Through painstaking research Nilesh Oak has PROVEN THROUGH VERIFIABLE ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCE that MAHA-Bharata REALLY HAPPENED!!! Christian and Muslims INVADERS you and eat crow!!! The ONLY GOD is Sri Krishna and his expansions of Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma. Alla and Jesus are total frauds. One says to reach him takes 11 years[means allah is not omniprsent, hence is not God] and Jesbus says the earth is flat.....forget beng God , Jebus is not even a smart person qith low IQ.For all those wanting to know if God exists, the answer is YES, YES, YES, and his original form is Sri Krishna[Pure Spiritual energy] and his expansions of Lord Brahma[creation of the material energy] & Lord Shiva[destruction of material energy].All glories to you Nileshji

Loved the book, though I don't have any backgrount in astronomy. Gave me many new insights and a different perspective on the epic. Just the fact that Nileshji was able to input the astronomical observations into a current Nasa software and get answers proves that our ancient Indic epics were definitely not myths. They were not only true but they had a lot of scientific knowledge and reasoning to them. Another reason for the so called self professed western scholarship to look at Indic culture, civilization, heritage and scientific knowledge with an unbiased point of view. Indic scholars like Nileshji are only further helping to drive home this point. Even for the uninitiated there is so much to learn about astronomy and the Mahabharata story from a different point of view. I will now be reading the 2nd book in this series which is Bhishma Nirvana.

Good work nice thanks for the writer ✍️ as anMahabharath fan and krishna bakth great thanks 🙏 for the writer

Fascinating Book, Readable .

Understanding that Mahabharata War actually took place from available evidence at this time.

This is how a theory should be explained. Theory stated clearly, background knowledge explained, evidence well explained and made as simple as possible