“If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.” — David Douglass
As I have stated in my earlier articles, Vartak proposed that the grouping of seasons and lunar months changes by one month every 2,160 years due to precession, and this…
Part 9 of 10 — The Grouping of Seasons and Lunar Months from the Vedic age till Now
In the previous eight articles of this series, Oak’s dating of the Rāmāyaṇa to 12209 BCE has been refuted. There are four Astronomy Poison Pills for the dating of the Rāmāyaṇa according…
Part 8 of 10 — Bluffing and the Game of Numbers
In the previous seven articles of this series, Oak’s dating of the Rāmāyaṇa to 12209 BCE has been refuted. There are four Astronomy Poison Pills for the dating of the Rāmāyaṇa according to Oak [1]. The first Astronomy Poison…
There are 71 “Error Elimination — Experiments” in the book “The Historic Rama”. Here are my comments on each one of them.
Error Elimination — Experiment 1: Caitra — month in which forests bloom (pp. 57–60)
This was refuted in Part 2 [2].
Error Elimination — Experiment 2: Setting Sun…
Part 7 of 10 — A bridge to NOWHERE — A tale of two Laṅkās
In the previous six articles of this series, Oak’s dating of the Rāmāyaṇa to 12209 BCE has been refuted. There are four Astronomy Poison Pills for the dating of the Rāmāyaṇa according to Oak [1]…
As I described in previous four articles of this series, Oak claims that he has sets of evidence, which he calls “Astronomy Poison Pills,” that make it impossible for the date of the Rāmāyaṇa to be later than 10000 BCE. …
Part 6 of 10- The Comet observed by Lakshmana CANNOT be identified; Appendix 1–30 instances of Halley’s comet in Mūla nakshatra between 17500 BCE and 10000 BCE based on Voyager 4.5 software
As I described in Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series of articles, Oak claims that he has a set of evidence, which he calls “Astronomy Poison Pills,” that make it impossible for the date of the Rāmāyaṇa to be later than 10000 BCE. …
Part 4 of 10- Āśvina month was NOT in the Vasanta season during Rāmāyaṇa time
As I described in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series of articles, Oak claims that he has sets of evidence, which he calls “Astronomy Poison Pills,” that make it impossible for the date…
