The mistake made by most astronomers is that they could not realise that the significance of Bhisma’s sentence.
The first part of the sentence states:
I have been lying sleepless for 58 nights.
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The first part of the sentence states:
I have been lying sleepless for 58 nights.
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Only in the second part of the sentence does he say almost as an afterthought:
That “the arrows are making every moment seem like a century”
Now ask the question:
Can this be 58 nights on bed of arrows?
Ans: No!
That “the arrows are making every moment seem like a century”
Now ask the question:
Can this be 58 nights on bed of arrows?
Ans: No!
There is a reason why logically he cannot be speaking about this period in that manner ..... Since Krishna himself gives him a boon to not suffer the arrows pain!
What he is saying is that he spent 58 nights on the battlefield... not 58 on bed of arrows!
What he is saying is that he spent 58 nights on the battlefield... not 58 on bed of arrows!
As you will note in the old wars of Hindu India, battlefield commanders enter the battlefield before the war actually starts upto a week before, here it is 3 days before on the Bharani Nakshatra and that’s the significance of the verse which refers to this day!!!
On that day, from ancient records typically a homa is performed called Bharani homa!
Bharani is ruled by Yama and that day homa is for all those who will die in the battlefield as well as for victory.
(Even today people charge good sums of money to do homa in Bharani Nakshatra)
Bharani is ruled by Yama and that day homa is for all those who will die in the battlefield as well as for victory.
(Even today people charge good sums of money to do homa in Bharani Nakshatra)
By the way, Bhisma’s words and the Magha masa verses cause severe difficulty to any astronomer who wishes to take the war beyond 3200BCE because the Vernal Equinox position which should be at Rohini will shift and the lunar month becomes Phalgun.
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