Source: The Hindu
HYDERABAD, INDIA, January 12, 2002: As Afghanistan continues to be in spotlight, an eminent scholar of ancient Indian astronomy, B. G. Sidharth, Director-General of the B. M. Birla Planetarium and Science Centre, has contended that there is sufficient astronomical and other evidence to suggest that the battle and many of the events of the Mahabharata took place in the regions around that beleaguered country, around 1350 bce. Delivering a lecture on “Dating the Vedas and later literature with the help of astronomy,” he said there were a number of astronomical symbols to strengthen this proposition and added that this view of history from “archeao-astronomy scenario” appears very different from the textbooks.