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PATNA, INDIA, April 3, 2005: A Canadian researcher of Indian origin says on the strength of astronomical evidence that the Mahabharata war was fought between the Pandavas and Kauravas in 2156 bce. Anand Mohan Sharan, who teaches in the faculty of engineering at the Memorial University in Newfoundland, said he used computers and several kinds of software to reach the conclusion about the epic Kurukshetra battle. “The astronomical evidences proved the historicity of the Mahabharata war by verifying the position of the planetary configurations mentioned in the ‘Bhishma Parva’ of the Mahabharata,” Sharan told IANS. The Bhishma Parva is one of the 18 Parvas, or sections, that make up the Mahabharata.



Sharan, who is visiting Bihar, says that his research on the Mahabharata war proves that the epic was no fiction. According to Sharan, the evidences include Lord Krishna’s departure for negotiations in a bid to avoid the war on Revati day and the start of Balram’s pilgrimage for 42 days along the Saraswati river on Pushya day. The drying up of the Saraswati river is believed by many to have take place around 1700 bce. “My results confirm that the descriptions in the Mahabharata are correct, and do not require re-organization of the shlokas, as suggested by many researchers in the past,” he said. Sharan said his search time span covered 500 bce to 4000 bce. “This time span ensures that it covers all possible dates of the Mahabharata war. The date so determined were checked against other archaeological evidences such as the possibility of the presence of iron in India on that date.”

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