The Real Rama

A generation that is ignorant of its origin and history is bound to face problems.  Today we are told that Rama is only a story, a myth…

There are archeo-astraunomical researches, historical records and geographical evidences of real existence of Rama. Two researchers Dr. Hari and Dr. Hema Hari along with their team have done research over the last 9 years and have collated over 300 hours of authentic and specific information on 64 different subjects of India to understand the culturally rich India with a non religious, non political scientific temper. The information is available on the site www.bharathgyan.com . This is a site that one must thoroughly browse to know the real historical facts about India. The historicity of Rama is one of those 64 subjects. This is published in detail on the site www.historicalrama.org.

The archeo-astronomy is a branch of archeology where the given planetary positions are mapped to a certain time in history. This is done with the help of Planetarium softwares that are known for its high precision and are used for launching the long distance spacecrafts. So if we know a particular planetary chart, e.g. the planatory chart at the time of your birth, then with the help of the Planetarium software we can accurately calculate the date and time of your birth. Lets have a look that how this has been very useful in proving the historicity of Ramayana.  

As per Ramayana Rama Navami is the birth day of Rama. Rama was born on the Navami tithi of Shukla Paksha of Chaitra masa  (i.e. 9th day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra).
At that time, the nakshatra was Punarvasu, and Sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus were in Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Pisces respectively. Lagna was Cancer and Jupiter & Moon were shining together. -- Ramayana 1.18.8,9 

The above planetary information from Ramayana, when entered into the Planetarium software, it gives us the following DOB of Rama

Sri Rama Navami - 10th January 5114 BCE - Birth Day of Rama

Then there is an incidence in Ramayana, when Laxman cuts the nose of Suparnkha in Panchvati (Nasik). Suparnkha sends his brothers Khar and Dushan to take revenge. Ramayana mentions a very rarest of rare solar eclipse during this war.

"When Khar moved with his army towards Rama for the battle, a red coloured evening appeared to be descending all over."    - Ramayana: 3.23.1
"The sun was covered by a dark coloured disc that had red coloured corners."    - Ramayana: 3.23.3
"Although it was daytime, it started appearing to be evening."    - Ramayana: 3.23.9

The Solar eclipse on 7th October 5077 BCE reached maxium coverage for Panchwati at 15.10 hours.

With the above two dates the age of Rama during Solar eclipse is coming out to be around 37yrs that is in chronological consistency with the events mentioned in the Ramayana. There are many such archeo-astraunomical evidences throughout Ramayana text that matches with the actual astraunomical caculations.

Then there are very strong Geographical evidences. Every site on Rama's route is still identifiable and has continuing traditions in the form of temples to commemorate Rama's visit. Be it Dunagiri or Devaprayag in Uttarakhand or Panchvati (Nasik), Kishkinda in Karnataka, Rameshwaram in Tamilnadu, Ram-Setu and Lanka.  All the places visited by Rama still retain memories of his visit.

There is a convergence in literature, archaeology and local tradition. Rama actually walked on this land in flesh and blood 7200 years ago. This is the history of this land which every child born on this land has a right to know.  Then why were we not taught about this in our school history books? The reason is very interesting. The History of India that we read in schools today was written by two Britishers, Mr.James Mill & Mr. Charles Grant from Helebary College, In 1813. They in their own colonial understanding listed most of the literature of India as Mythological. For details read at http://www.historicalrama.org/IndianTextMyth.html

Why are we still teaching the History of India written by colonial Britishers to our children, is a big question that every Indian should ask. We are teaching our children that Alexander defeated Porus, but the modern historians state it vice versa. Isn’t it the time when we should wake up and rewrite the history of a culturally rich India in a fresh light and with a scientific, non-religious and non-political temper?

Jai Guru Dev

Monika