Comments on: Pre-dated Sankranti – Belated Uttarayana

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:52:04 +0000

You are welcome Shweta.

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:51:32 +0000

Yes Sachin, Sahara was a lush green region not so long ago and so was the Thar desert. Most mountain tops were submerged in sea water in the past!

The reason for drying up of Saraswati river is that the himalayan plates tectonic shift caused yamuna and sutlej to change their course, Sutlej joined Indus and Yamuna joined Ganga to create Ganga-Yamuna valley. These two were the major sources of water for Saraswati and this caused the river to dry up. You can read only of my earlier articles on this at http://www.hitxp.com/articles/veda/vedic-saraswati-river-civilization/

By: Gurudev

Gurudev — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:35:54 +0000

Yes Suresh, the dates of some of our celebrations need to be changed to reflect reality.

By: shweta

shweta — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:37:39 +0000

Hi Guru,
New information. Thanks for sharing.
shweta

By: Sachin Purohit

Sachin Purohit — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:36:32 +0000

Guruji..this was interesting info about Makar Sankranti and Uttarayana. I knew about Uttarayana being faulty. Makar Sankranti also being wrong celebration date is news to me. Regards precession – this phenomenon has an interesting impact on climate zones on the planet earth. Apparently, based on archaeological evidence, Sahara Desert not too long ago – just about 7500 years ago – was not a desert. It was a tropical rainforest and had a lot of lakes and rivers. It just turned dramatically a desert in the next 250 years or so. Its got just about (25000 – 7500) 18000 more years after which it will again become a rainforest.

Am not sure if this is the very cause that led the ancient Indian river Saraswati to vanish.

By: suesh balaraman

suesh balaraman — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:53:11 +0000

Then astrlogically and astronomically Jan 21 is the actual day and date,for Makara Smkranti.Makes sense.Our religious calendarical interpretation,then should be shifted accordingly,as scientist Saha had suggested,for Rashtriya Panchangam.Good info gurudev,thnx.