His paper on the war’s dating will be part of a book of research on the Mahabharata that I-Serve plans to bring out later this year.
The beginning of the Holocene (post last ice age) is now universally accepted to be around 12000 BP.
A few have used astronomical methods to determine the time of the Mahabharata. All in all, it is possible to state that the dates as derived by Dr.
It is possible to determine the date of an astronomical reference by considering the movements of the planets including the Sun and the Moon in the various constellations of the sky, the movement of the Earth with its axis inclined to the ecliptic and the precession and nutation of this axis as well as the seasonal changes referred to in the text.
As per ecologists this ecological cycle has been repeating itself and will get repeated after every ice age and during the beginnings of all Holocene cycles.
Therefore the history of growth of civilization in the world is not 4 to 5 thousand years old but it is more than 10,000 years old.