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The Dawn of a New Era
4 July 2007
It has come to pass
that approximately two dozen temples in a district in Tamil Nadu,
renowned for its Vedic studies, will be celebrating the forthcoming
rituals according to the Vedic Sayana/Tropical Zodiac system.
The first will be the up-coming Gokulashtami – 6 August. All the
rest of the Observances will follow as per the Tropical Calendar.
This occurrence is being given wide publicity throughout India. It
coincides with the Tamil translation publication of our Movement’s
‘Manifesto’.
With this most
important breakthrough many devotees and temple authorities will
begin to ask questions – and this is what we had hoped for. The only
way falsehood can be prolonged is when it succeeds in obscuring the
Light, for the truth is to be found in the actual history of how
and why the Nirayana system of astrological/temple
calculations came to be adopted. The story is rather incredible, as
the reader will now note.
As Convenor of this
Movement, in various platforms I have been reporting my discoveries
of the 12th Century scholar-traveller Al Biruni’s
influence over Hindu Pundits in the question of shifting from the
Vedic Tropical Zodiac as backdrop for the yearly Sacrifice to the
un-Vedic system of measuring the passage of the year on the
backdrop of the distant Constellations. The Vedic system must be
balanced on the unchanging four Cardinal pillars of the Tropical
Zodiac, which do not hold any prominence in the Nirayana system
advocated by Al Biruni. He wrote in his famous document, India,
critiquing Varamihira’s Brhad Samhita,
‘The solstice has kept its place, but the constellations have
migrated, just the very opposite of what Varaha has fancied’ (India,
II, p.7). In
other words, an entirely different, distant ‘circle’ is proposed by
the scholar, and it later found favour with Hindu Pundits. He
appeared on the scene in the 12th Century, but it took
many more centuries and the invention of the printing press for the
final death blow to occur with the adoption of the un-Vedic
Nirayana method by Hindu almanac providers.
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