Am enjoying your various posts and find that we have some thoughts in common. Like your interpretations on quantum mechanics and how you draw us back to the Vedas for clarification and answers to what puzzles us in the modern world.

Regarding dates for Ramayana – what about the finding of ancient Dwaraka off the coast (2 miles, 200 ft depth) of present day Dwaraka in 2001? If the Ramayana and Rama were before Krishna, that pushes back its time period a long way. The ocean covered Dwaraka dates back to around 12000bc, from carbon dating of remains there.

Birth
date of Rama is mentioned as 5114 BC, but as per Ramayana, Sri Rama lived in
Treta yuga. Working backwards, Treta Yuga is of 12,96,000 years. Hence falls between
21,63,000 BC and 8,67,000 BC. According to NASA, the age of Rama Sethu is 1,750,000
years old and falls in Treta Yuga.

I
would like to bring to your notice that almost all software packages limit the
year to four digits, as there is no necessity for the year to exceed four
digits. When the allotted space is 4 digits, the computer processor would
truncate the bigger figure to 4 digits eliminating the digits from left side. For
example, if the date is 17,55,114 BC, it will cut off the first 3 digits 175
and will display only 5114 BC. (This is in some ways similar to the Y2K problem
in 1999AD, which required changing digits from 2 to 4 for year.) This may be
verified with the USA
software company Fogware Publishing about “Planetarium Gold.”

I
have faced such a problem in 1990 when we were processing the civilian officers
pay bills. The pay of a particular officer was Rs.11,320. As the number exceeded
9999, the computer eliminated the 1 on the left and printed his pay as Rs. 1,320.
We made the correction by manually adding 1 on the left side.

The
Gregorian calendar (Christian Calendar) that we are using presently went through
a lot of changes (from Lunar to Solar) and corrections and only in 1582 AD, Pope
Gregory XII finalized the present calendar after missing and shifting two
months. The Calendar was named after him. The loss of two months can be clearly
seen from the names of the months, as September (Septa =7) is 9th
month, October (Octa = is10th month, November (Nov = 9) is 11th
month, December (Deca =10) is 12th month in the present calendar.

Most
of the astrology software packages follow Zodiac signs for months, prior to 1581AD
Gregorian calendar. For Aries (Mar 22 to April 20) as Month 1, Taurus (April 21
to May 21)as 2, Gemini (May 22  to June
21) as 3, Cancer (June 22  to July 23) as
4, Leo (July 24  to Aug 23) as 5, Virgo (Aug
24  to Sept 23) as 6, Libra (Sept 24  to Oct 23) as 7, Scorpio (Oct 24   to Nov 22) as 8, Sagittarius (Nov 23  to Dec 22) as 9, Capricorn (Dec 23   to Jan 20) as 10, Aquarius (Jan 21    to Feb 19) as 11, Pisces (Feb 20   to Mar 21) as Month 12.

It is mentioned that
the date of birth of Sri Rama as 10th January. It was mentioned that
the Sun is in Aries (March 22 to April 20). If this is taken into consideration
the date will be 1st April 17, 55,114 BC.

Sri
Rama Navami comes in the month of Chaitra of Lunar calendar, which normally
falls in March or April of present Christian calendar. The date of Sri Ram
Navami in the last few years is as follows. 9th April in 1995, 28th
March in 1996,16th April in1997, 16th April in1997, 5th
April in 1998, 25th March in1999, 12th April in 2000, 2nd
April in 2001, 21st April in 2002, 11th April in 2003, 30th
March in 2004, 18th April in 2005, 7th April in 2006, 27th
March in 2007. 14th April in 2008 (starting of Solar Calendar and
Tamil New year), 3rd April in 2009. It can be observed that Sri Rama
Navami was between 25th March and 21st April for the last
15 years. Hence January may not be correct.

Based
on this, the modified dates are as follows.

Sri
Rama Birth Date = 1 April 17,55,114BC, 

Vanavasam
starting = 27 March 17,55,089BC, 

War
with Khar Dushan = 30 Oct 17,55,077BC,

Hanuman
return from Lanka = 6 Dec 17,55,076BC,

Ravanas
death = 23 Feb 17,55,075BC,

Sri
Rama return to Ayodhya =  24 March
17,55,075BC.

I
request that, if you hold the software, try reverse feeding by giving the date
in your book, it should give the correct planetary position. Please try by
feeding the date 17,55,114 BC and check the planetary position. This may be
possible for you to verify if your software permits you to enter a 7 digit
figure for year. I feel that 5114 and 17 in the left hand side may be correct
and I doubt the figure 5 in between. You may try 1 to 9 and check the
results. 

B.V.Audinarayana 

Email:
bandaruva@gmail.com