[INDOLOGY] Verify dates for the Gītā
Howard Resnick
hr at ivs.edu
Fri Dec 6 04:21:32 UTC 2024
I will add that the Mahābhārata citations are from Ganguly, which itself might be problematic.
Howard
> On Dec 5, 2024, at 8:09 PM, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Scholars,
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> A Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī priest asked me to verify or reject dates given by “someone” for the great Kurukṣetra-yuddha, and thus for Krishna’s speaking of the Gītā. Personally, I am wholly unqualified to address this issue, having never studied the requisite areas of Hindu "astro-chronology.” I am sending the query I received as an attached file.
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> I would be grateful for an expert opinion here. If the claims made in this argument are incoherent or unscholarly (which I cannot evaluate) it would be quite good to know that.
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> Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
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> Best wishes,
> Howard
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