AYODHYA VERDICT AND HISTORY
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By Dr.Dipak Basu
October 30, 2010
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(The author is a Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki
University, Japan)
The verdict of the Lukhnow Bench of the Allahabad High Court agreed
on three important issues: Muslims do not have exclusive claim to the
site held sacred by Hindus; the ground where the central dome of the
Babri Masjid stood belongs to Ram Lalla as has been argued for
centuries by Hindus who believe it is Ram Janmabhoomi; and, a temple
existed at the spot that was selected by Mir Baqi to build a mosque
to celebrate Babur's victorious military campaign in the region. On
the third point, two of the three judges also agreed that the temple
was desecrated and destroyed to build the mosque; one of them held
this to be un-Islamic, a point validated by Islamic theology.
Do the Muslims go to the court to establish their faiths regarding
Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem (where the Prophet went by flying to
establish the Dome of the Rock)? Do the Christians ever go to the
court to establish their faith regarding Nazareth, or Bethlehem or
Jerusalem? The Court has nothing to do with the faith. It is a great
insult for the Hindus that the court is deciding whether their faith
is valid or invalid. Swami Vivekanand said, "When a man has begun to
be ashamed of his ancestors and his past, the end has come".
According to the Pseudo-Secularists of India, 62 academics and
journalists who have signed a petition against the Allahabad High
Court verdict, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Purans are nothing but mythology
and the rights of the Mongol invaders are sacrosanct.
Historical Evidences:
There are enough archeological evidence to demonstrate that the
Mosque in Ayudhya was erected by destroying a temple, which was
there, and the materials from the temple was used to build that
Mosque by Baber, the Mongol invader to India. Some excerpts from the
book "Rama: His Historicity, Mandir and Setu, Evidence of Literature,
Archaeology and other Sciences" written by Dr BB Lal, Former Director
General of the Archeological Survey of India would prove beyond doubt
that there was a temple in the Janmabhoomi (birth place of Ram) area
at Ayodhya preceding the construction of the Babri Masjid.
"Attached to the piers of the Babri Masjid there were twelve stone
pillars which carried not only typical Hindu motifs and moldings but
also figures of Hindu deities (Figs. 2.3).
It was self evident that these pillars were not an integral part of
the Masjid but were foreign to it. Since, as already stated, the
pillar-bases were penetrating into the Masjid complex, a question
naturally arose whether these bases had anything to do with the
above-mentioned pillars affixed to the piers of the Masjid. (pp-55)."
"Of the above mentioned three inscriptions, the largest one is
engraved on a stone-slab measuring 1.10 x .56 meters, and consists of
twenty lines. The relevant part of it reads as follows: a beautiful
temple of Vishnu-Hari, built with heaps of stones and beautified with
a golden spire unparalleled by any other temple built by the earlier
kings was constructed."
Babar's own voluminous memoirs, "The Baburnama" gives us an insight
into the mind and activities of the Moghul / Turkish conqueror.
Originally written in Chaghatay (a dialect of Turkish), two English
translations of the book are available. The first one was by Annette
Beveridge and published between 1912 & 1921. The second and more
authoritative version, "The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and
Emperor" was translated, edited and annotated by Wheeler M. Thacktson
and published by the Oxford University Press in 1996. Babur's stayed
in Ayodhya from April to September of 1528.
Baber wrote, "Chanderi had been in the daru"l-harb [Hindu rule] for
some years and held by Sanga's highest-ranking officer Meidini Rao,
with four or five thousand infidels, but in 934 [1527-28], through
the grace of God, I took it by force within a ghari or two, massacred
the infidels, and brought it into the bosom of Islam ..." (p. 331)
"For the sake of Islam I became a wanderer; I battled infidels and
Hindus."
"I determined to become a martyr. Thank God I became a holy warrior."
(p. 387)
"Hindustan is a place of little charm. ... The one nice aspect of
Hindustan is it is a large country with lots of gold and money."
Ram as Historical Person:
Ram was mentioned not only in Valmiki's Ramayan, but also in Vyas's
Mahabharata at four places -- Ramopakhayan, Aaranyak Parva, Drona
Parva and Dashrath Kathanak. In Rig Veda (10.60.4.4), there is a
mention of Iksvaku, the ancestor of Ram and the founder of Ayodhya.
The Atharva Veda mentions Ayodhya as having nine gates. The Atharva
Veda (18.3.16) mentions the name of Vishwamitra, Vashista the
preceptor of Ram, and Bhardwaj.
According to ancient Indian chronology and Puranic tradition Ram was
born in the 24th Treta Yug (Great Age). Here are the references:
1. Treta yuge chaturvinshe ravane tapseh shakshyat
Ram dashrtathi prapiye sagane shakyamiyeewan (Vayu Puran 70.88)
2. Sandho tu samanupraptre tretayaam dwaparisya cha
Ramo daasrathirbhutva bhavishami jagatpati (Mahabharata 348.19)
3. Chaturvinshe yuge chapi vishwamitra pure sare
Loke ram iti khyate tejsah bhaskaropam (Harivansh 22.104)
4. Chaturvinshe yuge vats tretayaam raghuvanshaje
Ramo naam bhavishyami chaturvhayu sanatane (Bhramand Puran 2.2.36.30)
Dr Satya Pal Singh in his essay (Rediff.com April 14, 2008) has
calculated that if Ram indeed lived during the last phase of the 24th
Treta Yuga, as mentioned in Valmiki's Ramayan then he lived 1.8
million years ago. We are presently in the Kalyug of the 28th
Chaturyugi and so far, 5,108 years of Kalyug have lapsed. Kalyug has
432,000 years, Dwapar had 864,000 years, Treta had about 1,2 million
years and Satyug had 1.7 million years. Thus one unit of four yugas,
called Chaturyugi, have 4.3 million years.
The Valmiki Ramayan (Bal Kanda 18.8.9) mentions at the time of Lord
Ram's birth as "the ninth lunar day of the bright fortnight of
Chaitra, Punarvasu was in the ascendant and five planets (the Sun,
Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus) appeared in the zodiacal signs of
Mesa or Aries, Makara or Capricorn, Tula or Libra, Karka or Cancer,
and Mina or Pisces respectively. Jupiter in conjunction with the Moon
appeared in Karka. From these, it is possible to calculate that Ram
was born on January 10, 5114 BC, which means to say 7,122 years ago.
According to astronomy, the position of zodiac constellations repeats
itself every 26,000 years. Thus, Ram could have been born in any of
the repetitive cycles in planetary positions. The scientific
interpretation of the photographs of the remains of Ram Setu taken by
NASA's Gemini-11 spacecraft in 2002 reveals that this ancient bridge
linking India to Sri Lanka was about 1.75 million years old. If Ram
built this bridge, the constellations would have completed 66 cycles
before coming back to its original position.
According to Vedas, the world is 4.32 billion years old, and man
arrived on earth approximately two billion years ago. Man was created
on earth in the seventh manmantar of Vaivasvat Manu. The sun,
planets, stars, earth, sea, vegetation, flora and fauna were created
in the earlier six manmantars. Western scholars now agree that the
earth is aged between 3.96 and 4.3 billion years. According to
Michael Cremo's books, "Forbidden Archaeology" and "Devolution of
Man" man came on earth at least two billion years ago.
The Rama Sethu was man-made:
The Rama Bridge, dated by a NASA digital image, is considered
1.7million years old, which matches the ancient age of human
settlement in Sri Lanka. The existence of a man-made bridge and of
its floating nature was emphasized by the former director of the
Geological Survey of India and a member of the National Institute of
Ocean Technology (NIOT), S. Badrinarayanan. Badrinarayanan said in
Mumbai Mirror (24 April 2007), that the Ram Setu was not a natural
formation. "Coral reefs," he said, "are formed only on hard surfaces,
but during (our) study we found that the formation at the Bridge is
nothing but boulders of coral reefs. When we drilled for
investigation, we found that there was loose sand two to three meters
below the reefs. Hard rocks were found several meters below the
sand."
"Such a natural formation is impossible. Unless somebody has
transported them and dumped them there, those reefs could not have
come there. Some boulders were so light that they could float on
water. Apparently, whoever has done it, has identified light (but
strong) boulders to make it easy for transportation. Since they are
strong, they can withstand a lot of weight. It should be preserved as
a national monument."
"The Geological logging of the boreholes drilled by NIOT in the
inter-tidal areas of Ram Sethu reveals very interesting details. In
all the boreholes, the top portion is seen to be occupied by recent
marine sands. In almost of all the boreholes between 4.5 and 7.5m the
borehole intersected hard formations, which have been found to be
calcareous sand stones and corals."
"In the case of Ram Sethu area, we observe that the Coral formations
hardly occur 1 to 2.5m in length and resting on loose marine sands.
Most of these coral rock pieces are seem to be rounded pebbles of
corals. These things appear to point these coral rock pieces and
pebbles have been transported and placed in these areas".
"Since the calcareous sand stones and Corals are less dense than
normal hard rock and quite compact, probably these were used by the
ancients to form a connecting link to Sri Lanka, on the higher
elevations of the Ram Sethu ridge and this is analogous to modern day
causeway".
The possibility of this bridge being a submarine anti-clinal ridge is
also ruled out because the bridge area is located in the recent
sediments, which are not yet subjected to any folding activity.
Hence, this submarine feature, called Rama Bridge, remains to be man-
made to connect the two landmasses of Tamil Nadu (India) and Sri
Lanka, both being separated by the sea. That is, it would have been
developed manually to cross the ocean when the sea level was lower
than the present one.
Prof. Padmanabha Rao, former head of the Radiation Safety Group&
Deputy Director, Defense Laboratory (DRDO) in Jodhpur, Rajasthan has
the opinion that Ramayan has mentioned five different types of human
races apart from the north Indian Aryans. They were 1) Vanaras; 2)
Golanguls; 3) Rukshyas; 4) Gradhru; 5) Rakshasas. Apart from the
Rakshasas, other four types of human races helped Rama to build the
bridge. In Europe, we have the evidence that Neanderthals, who were
almost human but not human, existed side by side with the human in
ancient time. In ancient India too, there were several near-human
races apart from the human race. The origin of the human settlement
in Sri Lanka in about 1.7 million years ago corresponds to the year
when according to the Purana Rama first went to Sri Lanka. The
Bridge, according to NASA, was also constructed at about 1.7 million
years ago.
Conclusions:
In 638 AD, ancient Persia was occupied by the Arabs and all traces of
Zoroastrian religions were erased out. In 664AD, Arabs reached
Afghanistan, then a Hindu-Buddhist country and in the same year
reached Punjab. Since then, every temple in India were sacked and
ruined. Ayodhya controversy could not have taken place if the Muslims
acknowledged this historical fact.
In Europe, epics of Homer and The Bible are not considered as myths,
but informal history. The ruin of Troy, described by Homer, is
already excavated. Israel government made serious efforts to excavate
every places mentioned in The Bible to find out its ancient past. In
India as well, S.R.Rao, former chief of the Archaeological Survey of
India, has discovered the ruins of Dwarka submerged in water off the
coast of Gujarat. Japanese ground Radar Company Tojo-Vikas has found
out ruins of huge places 30 meter under the ground of Ayodhya. Thus,
it is most unscientific to rule out Ramayan, Mahabharata and Purana
as just myths, but not informal history of the ancient India.
Dr. Dipak Basu
More at:
http://www.blogs.ivarta.com/Ayodhya-Verdict-History/blog-390.htm
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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The following statement made by Dr.Dipak Basu is incorrect. In fact Vanaras; 2)
Golanguls; 3) Rukshyas; 4) Gradhru; 5) Rakshasas were distinct civilizations existed along with humans during Ramayana period. In very clear words they were not human races. Dr.Basu did a grave mistake in saying Rakshasas have helped Rama to built the bridge. Rama and his huge army made a huge landmass about 65 km long and 5 km wide on 200 meters deep sea in just 5 days between ancient India and Sri Lanka to fight against Rakshasa King Ravan. Dr.Basu may please note these corrections. The purpose is not to offend him but to tell the truth.