This is Pushkar Bhatnagar from New Delhi. I would like to share something which must interest many of you.

Perhaps, you might have heard that the actual dates for the various events that took place during the lifetime of Lord Ram have been discovered. This work has been completed by me by using a powerful planetarium software. Maharishi Valmiki, who wrote Ramayana, was contemporary of Lord Ram and in his book, Valmiki has mentioned the position of planets in the sky at different points of time. For instance, the position of all the planets has been mentioned for the day when Lord Ram was born. Moving forward, he mentions that when Lord Ram turned 25 he was supposed to get the kingship of Ayodhya but was eventually exiled for 14 years. He mentions the position of planets again for the day he left for forests. Later on, Valmiki mentions during the last quarter of the 13th year of his exile he fought a battle with Khar and Dushan and on that day a solar eclipse was seen. Not only the eclipse, the author also describes the position of planets in the sky on that day. Further ahead, six months later, another solar eclipse has been mentioned to mark the death of Bali at the hands of Lord Ram. Again, after about another six months when hanuman went to meet Sita at Lanka, a lunar eclipse has been described to have occurred. Besides these, several other planetary positions heve also been mentioned spanning over these 39 years (25 years age + 14 years of exile). With the help of the planetarium software, which generates the sky view on the desktop for any given period of time, it has been found that the planetary positions mentioned for the date of birth of Lord Ram had occurred in the sky at around 12.30 p.m. of 10th January 5114 BC. Not only this the position of planets after the 25 years of the birth of Ram tallies exactly with their description in Ramayana. The software shows that the solar eclipse had indeed occurred during the last quarter of the 13th year of exile and even the position of the planets were also the same as described. Not only this even the subsequent two eclipses had actually occured at the specified dates. In this manner the entire sequence of the planetary positions gets verified and all the dates can be precisely determined. The entire dating has been conducted objectively beacuse the software does not permit any manipulation and the verses of Ramayana are also free of any doubts. I have substantiated the findings with the help of archaeological evidences also which clearly show that Lord Ram had walked on earth about 7118 years ago from today. All of you, who want to know more about this work may please reply at Pushkarbhatnagar@hotmail.com and seek information / clarifications. Regards Pushkar Bhatnagar 344/1 Lado Sarai,

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