BEGINNING OF KALI YUGA

SEVERAL RISHIS HAVE DEFINED YUGA IN THEIR OWN WAY, ADVANCING THEIR OWN SPECIFIC THEORIES AND VIEWPOINTS. JEEVAN RAO HAS ORCHESTRATED SOMETHING REMARKABLE, COMPELLING, UNPARALLELLED AND UNIQUE. HE ACCEPTS EVIDENCE/S OFFERED BY THE PURANAS ONLY IF IT IS VALIDATED BY THE MAHABHARATA

- MANJULA TEKAL

It is so difficult to tread-path the fine line and demarcation between the fantastic and practical, myth and fact, the physical and metaphysical. After centuries, time has dithered away the memories and obfuscated facts. Digging and delving deep into the evidence of Mahabharata is excruciatingly problematic and anachronic for this reason. Even today, after many excavations have proved that Mahabharata is a historical reality, many think and interpret it as a myth. Its clarity, alacrity and wealth of geographical, astronomical, and genealogical information that it offers must prove its historical veracity beyond doubt. Notwithstanding separating the fantastic from fact and walking the fine line between faith and skepticism can only be done by someone mature, diligent, scholarly and wise beyond his years. And this is precisely what Jeevan Rao has successfully achieved in his creation, Yuganta. He has worked ab initio from defining fundamental concepts such as Yuga.

Most scholars believe that Kali Yuga ushered in when Bhagwan Krishna ended his avatar on this earth. Based on this belief, they have worked out 3102 BCE as the start of Kali Yuga. Scholars have propagated several thesis to support this and several other dates for the start of Kali Yuga. Jeevan travels through these suggested dates, examines these, and repudiates many thereof, scientifically. He also traces the claim of 3102 BCE Kali Yuga to Bhaskaracharya.