All Hindu festivals are out of date

[Anbusurya P]

ps: reposting it coz the earlier post didn't get any reply.

My thesis posits that the hermeneutics of all our festivals are fundamentally rooted in the "Philosophy of Light"—specifically the solar cycles of equinoxes and solstices—rather than the static visual background of the asterisms.As we all know, Due to the axial precession of the equinoxes, a significant divergence has occurred between the Sayana (Tropical) seasonal markers and the Nirayana (Sidereal) stellar positions currently utilized in our liturgical calendars; for instance, Kartigai Deepam, originally a marker of the Autumnal Equinox, is now observed in late November, severing its connection to the equinoctial stagnation it was designed to commemorate. Therefore, I argue for a recalibration of our festival dating to a Tropical zodiacal framework, thereby restoring the alignment between our ritual observances and the astronomical phenomena of light they were originally intended to embody.

Extending this hermeneutic to Vamana Jayanti, I posit that the Trivikrama legend—wherein Vishnu measures the universe in three strides—is not merely mythological but an allegorical encoding of the Sun’s declinational traverse across the cardinal points, a solar reclamation of the 'three worlds' (Earth, Atmosphere, Sky) that has drifted from its original Tropical anchor due to precessional error and later evolved into the marker of upakarma rituals signalling the monsoon's arrival.

Similarly, the defining temporal condition of Narasimha Jayanti—the Avatar’s manifestation at Sandhya (twilight), in the liminality of 'neither day nor night'—serves as a precise chronometric marker for the Equinox, the year’s great twilight or point of balance.

However, current Nirayana calculations displace this observance to Vaisakha, significantly disjointed from the actual Vernal Equinox; thus, the current liturgical calendar preserves the ritual shell while severing the connection to the astronomical reality (the Philosophy of Light) that these myths were designed to archive, necessitating a return to a Sayana framework 

Have explained it in detail in the below documents:

1) Vamana Jayanti and Bali Pratipada,Kartigai Astronomy
2)Narasimha Jayanti: Astronomical Fossil

Given the group's deep expertise in the Shastras, I would like insights on my observation.

[K S Kannan]

These and kindred issues have been dealt with, I guess, in

Essays on Indo-Aryan Mythology 

by Bindiganavile Narayana Iyengar 1901

- 2 volumes

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Dr. K.S.Kannan  D.Litt.

Hon. Prof., Chanakya University, Bangalore.,

Emeritus Prof. and Director, Vishnugupta VishwaVidyapeetham, Gokarna.,

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor (Retd.), IIT-Madras.

Member, Advisory Board, "Prof. A K Singh AURO Chair of Indic Studies", AURO University, Surat.
Member, Expert Committee for Review of Criticism of Indian Knowledge Traditions, Central Sanskrit University (under MoE, GoI), Ganganath Jha Campus, Prayagraj.
Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Heritage Science and Technology, IIT Hyderabad.

Nominated Member, Academic Committee, Kavi Kula Guru Kalidasa University, Ramtek.
Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana.
Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology.
Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla.

Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.

Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.

Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.

https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan

[Anbusurya P]

Not able to find his work, Could you please share where I can find it?  @DR K.S Kannan

Thanks!

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217324

Essays On Indo Aryan Mythology

by

 

Narayan Aiyangar

https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.217324/2015.217324.Essays-On_text.pdf

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[Narayan Prasad]

Namaste.

In this online file many pages are missing. For example, contents pp. viii-ix.

Regards

Narayan Prasad