Very often Ramayana mentions 100 yojanas in different contexts, but 2 contexts have been taken up by our researchers. 1. From somewhere in the Vindhyas Sampati saying that Lanka was 100 yojanas away from there 2. Ram Setu was 100 yojanas long. Taking 1 yojana = 8 miles, they say that Lanka must have been 800 miles from there and suggest that Hanuman jumped from Mahendragiri in Odisha to Sri Lanka. The other group prefers to reject Ram Setu because it is not 800 miles long. So, they choose to locate Lanka somewhere in the Indian Ocean south off India at a distance of 800 miles. I wonder why ..read more

The Alumni association of the Department of Vaishnavism of Madras University invited me to give a lecture on Ramayana dating. The programme was done on 27th April 2024, at 6 PM, IST. My talk covered the following topics:* Why dating needs to be done? * Solved the yuga issue, tithi - star mismatch and 11,000 years of rule of Rama. * Age of Rama at marriage and when exiled. * On abduction and Ravana war The programme ended with a Qestion-Answer session that covered various other issues on Ramayana. The session can be viewed on YouTube ..read more

I was invited to talk on Ramayana evidence in the Sri Rama Navami function conducted by Viveka Bharathy on 21st April, 2024. The news report about it in the Dinamalar newspaper the next day. Topics covered: *Rama's birth in 5114 BCE * Solved the yuga issue. * Vanaras as human beings in disguise to escape Parasurama. * Ravana striking a peace deal with a Pandyan king found in Chinnamanur copper plates and Raghu vamsam as well. * The identity of that Pandyan king was Nedum Kon, the last Pandyan king of the first Sangam age that ended 7000 years ago. Thiruvalluvar was a poet in his ..read more

(Published in Geethcharyan Magazine) இராமன் த்ரேதா யுகத்தில் வாழ்ந்தவன். த்ரேதா யுகம் என்பது லக்ஷகணக்கான ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முற்பட்டது. எனவே இராமன் லக்ஷகணக்கான ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் வாழ்ந்தவன் என்னும் கருத்து இருந்து வருகிறது. இந்தக் கருத்து உண்மையென்றால், இராமன் வாழ்ந்த அடையாளங்களை நாம் காண முடியாது. அவன் பிறந்த இடம் இதுதான் என்றும் குறிப்பாக ஒரு இடத்தைச் சொல்லவும் முடியாது. பல லக்ஷகணக்கான வருடங்களில் இட அமைப்புகள் மாறிப் போயிருக்கும். அவ்வளவு வருடங்களில் மனிதகுலமே மாறியிருக்கும். அப்பொழுது மனித குலமே இருந்ததா என்று கேட்கும் வண்ணம், த்ரேதா யுகம் மிகப் பழமையானது.  ..read more

Recently I published my research on the date of Adi Shankara as a book in print and also as an eBook on kindle.  The book has 8 chapters in 66 pages. The cover picture was made by Mr. Hayavadhan.  The purpose of the book was to find out the birth year of Adi Shankaracharya for which I collected all the olden texts and those written by scholars of recent times to pick out the date features of Adi Shankara. Fortunately, most of the authors including Cithsukhacharya, a contemporary of Adi Shankara were unanimous in stating his birth in Nandana year, Vaishakha month, Shukla Pancami a ..read more

My article sent in English on the Chola connection to Rama and how Lord Sriranganatha was the Kula Dhanam given by Rama to Vibheeshana to be handed over to the Cholas, was translated into Hindi and published in Panchjanya magazine in December issue of 2023, just before the Prana Pratishta of Sri Rama in Ayodhya. Only recently I came to know about this article and hence decided to post it in my blog. From https://panchjanya.com/2023/12/01/308785/bharat/links-of-chola-dynasty-related-to-shri-ram/#google_vignette श्रीराम से जुड़ीं चोल वंश की कड़ियां  ..read more

Part -2: What happened to the survivors of the Dwaraka- flood after the Vrishnis killed each other? The brief account of it given in the Epilogue of my book 'Mahabharata 3136 BCE' is narrated with additional inputs in the 2nd part of the Dwaraka series released by #SatyamevaJayate hashta#SatyamevaJayate.The video begins with a description of the route taken by Arjuna leading the survivors of the flood to safe regions, as given in the MB. Satyaki-clan was settled on the banks of Saraswati and Kritavarman-s in Mehgrah. The Sindhu region was with the descendants of Jayadratha. I go on t ..read more

 Part 1 of my talk on the location of Krishna's Dwaraka.  At first, I am discussing the feasibility of Bet Dwaraka in the Kutch region and the marine excavations in the Cambay region for being Krishna's Dwaraka. They don't match with Krishna's date of leaving the world in 3101 BCE.  Then I start finding its location from the details given in Harivamsa. Dwaraka was an island off the coast of Prabhas, i.e., Somnath. The nimitta-s noticed before the Dwaraka flood are discussed to know the nature of the calamity that befell on Dwaraka.  The last moments of the Vrishni-s and the ..read more

Here is the list of my books published so far.  1. Mahabharata 3136 BCE (English)-  https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2021/11/published-my-new-book-mahabharata-3136.html (Rs. 450) 2. Ramanuja Itihasa (English)- https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2022/04/chapter-wise-content-of-my-new-book.html (Rs. 400) 3. Ramanuja Itihasa (Tamil) - Rs. 380 4. Myth of the Epoch of Arundhati of Nilesh Nilkanth Oak (English) - https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2021/12/myth-of-epoch-of-arundhati-of-nilesh.html (Rs.200) 5. When was the First Vedic Homa do ..read more

Should we in India need a special day for women, namely, the International Women's day?  This question might sound provocative, particularly after I received a citation honouring me on the Women's Day. I am very much agreeable to honoring the hard work and contribution of any one - irrespective of being a woman or man. But thinking of the underlying concept of the International Women's Day, I have certain reservations. The International Women's Day was adopted by the UN sometime in the 80s with specific goals such as gender equality, reproductive rights and to stop violence and abuse agai ..read more