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Why is Valmiki Ramayan considered original and was it composed during Shri RamтАЩs lifetime?
Maharshi Valmiki composed the Ramayan- the Life story of Lord Ram around 7000 years back. Then, for a few thousand years, it has come down to us through the Shruti Smriti Parampara. A one-thousand-year-old manuscript of the Valmiki Ramayan is available in the Nepalese Library at Kathmandu.
Ram Setu: Evidence of a 2.8-Meter Lower Sea Level and Human Intervention in a Once-Running Chain
I went to visit Ramsetu from Dhanush Koti and lay down on the side of a fishing boat, wearing snorkelling glasses, touching the seawater. I could see the chain of islands, bays, hills, and sand, along with the hand-filled portions with rocks and stones tied by ropes on two sides. These were at a level walkable 7000 years ago
Did Panchavati have five types of Vata trees?
Panchvati did nit have only five commonly known vat trees, but it was all covered with five varieties of Vat trees тАУ Nyagarodha, Peepal, Palash, Udumbara, Udumbari. All these five varieties of Ficus trees are still found in Panchavati, Nashik.
Ramayan mentions Banana┬а groves only in coastal South Bharat, where these were found 7000 years ago.
Which is the original Ramayan? Why research relating to Ramayan era based on Valmiki Ramayan?
There are more than 400 versions of the Ramayana, each with a different title, yet they are all categorised as Ramayana. All languages originate as oral and develop in writing, with grammar emerging much later. In ancient Bharat, the Shruti Smriti tradition was very strong, and it continues to this day in Vedic Path-shalas. Valmiki JI composed the Ramayan during the lifetime of Shri Ram. This was passed on to the world by Luv Kush by singing it in Ram Darbar during the Ashwa medha yajna organised in Naimishh Aaranya. For many years, it was passed on through Shruti Samriti Parampara and reduced to writing many years later. More than 300 versions under different titles were written during the last 1500 years and we categorise all of these as Ramayan.
Title: Planetarium-Based Determination of Astronomical dates of textual
references in Ramayan.
From the Putra-kamyeshti yajna to crossing over to Lanka after building the Ramsetu, dates of all sequential events mentioned in Valmiki Ramayan are verifiable and cover the period from 5116 BCE to 5076 BCE. For example, a planetarium displays the planetary positions at the time of Shri Ram's birth on 10th January, 5114 BCE, which was Chaitra Shukla Navami. The Solar eclipse before the war with Khar Dushan was visible from Panchavati on 7th October 5077 BCE, which was the day of Paush Amavasya.
Title: Maharshi Valmiki was the first outstanding observational astronomer of
the world
All the astronomical observations recorded by him in the Ramayan are also verifiable as sequentially correct by the Planetarium softwares. This methodology for determining the astronomical dates of ancient Events has been developed only in the last 40 years.