Stars are Gods! We are Stars!! Life-on-Other-Planets-Orion
Hindus worship Seven Stars in the Ursa Major constellation every
day. They are considered Sapta Rsis (seven sages). Brahmins worship them
every day in their Sandhya ritual three times a day. Of the seven stars,
Vasishtha and his wife Arundhati are worshipped by everyone. Arundhati (
Star Alcor) is seen by all the newly married couples just before entering
the first night room. Tamil Sangam literature also praised the seven stars
as ‘Kai thozhum Ezuvar’. Agastya star on the southern sky (Canopus), Tri
Shanku (Southern Star constellation) and Druva (Pole Star) on the northern
sky are all worshipped by the Hindus. Arudra (in Orion) and Onam are
identified with Lord Shiva and Vishnu.
There is a fascinating account of Arjuna’s Space Travel in the
Vanaparva of Mahabharata. Without going much into it, I will quote only the
relevant portion today: “Arjuna ascended the divine chariot, brilliant like
the sun. And on this sun like, divine, wonder working chariot the wise
scion of Kuru flew joyously upward. While becoming invisible to the mortals
who walk on earth, he saw wondrous air borne chariots by thousands. No sun
shone there or moon or fire, but they shone with a light of their own
acquired by merits. Those lights that are seen as the stars look tiny like
oil flames because of the distance, but they are very large.” Page 308,
Mahabharata, The Book of the Forest (Vana Parva), Translated by A B Van
Buitenen orion January The amazing thing about this space
travel of Arjuna in Mahabharata is that it coincides with the latest
discovery of science. Vyasa wrote it 5000 years ago! Arjuna spent five
years in space, says Mahabharata. (My comments: This is similar to Vedic
Mantra. Vedas also talk about Orion constellation as a hunter.).
The Orion Constellation and the Hindus
“Mrga Vyadha, the hunter, is the name of Sirius in the legend of Pajapati’s
daughter in the Aitareya Brahmana. Prajapati (Orion) pursues his daughter
(Rohini) and is shot by the archer Sirius. The transference of the legend
to the sky is no doubt secondary, caused by the obvious similarity of the
constellation in question to the idea of an archer.” Page 174, Volume 2 of
Vedic Index by A A MacDonnell and A B Keith. [[My comments: Shiva who is
identified with Arudra (Betelgeuse) in the Orion constellation is praised
as a hunter in all the Vedic literature (Rudra Mantra and later
mythologies). Mrga Shirsa Nakshatra in the constellation is seen as a deer
head. Atharva Veda gives all the 27 star names.]]
Stars, known as Nakshatra in Sanskrit, appear in the Rig Veda,
oldest book in the world. It slowly increases in number to 28 in the later
Vedas. Another mystery in the Veda is the beginning of the year. It did not
begin in Chitrai (April-May) as we have now. The study of all these things
pushed the date of Vedas to 4500 BCE. Two researchers did astronomical
study independently and arrived at a period between 4000 and 4500 BCE for
the Rig Vedic hymns. They were Balagangadhara Tilak of India and Herman
Jacobi of Germany. The wonder about this research is that they did it
independently without the other knowing such research! Satapatha Brahmana
of Shukla Yajurveda is an encyclopedia. For the white skinned foreign
scholars, it is the most childish, rubbish prattle, blabber, jabber and
gibberish. For Hindus it is the biggest resource book of Yagas and Yajnas
detailing hundreds of rituals. The half-baked western “scholars” were happy
to read about the Asvamedha Yajna and Purushamedha Yajna in it. The Purusha
Medha Yajna lists 179 human beings from different professions to be thrown
into fire. But it had never happened anywhere in India. The only reference
is about a boy called *Sunashepa *who was rescued by the great sage
Vishwamitra. Now they must read this episode in various rituals and they
will get gold coins for reciting it! All these things puzzle and confuse
the western “scholars”. For us it is great encyclopedia giving 179
different professions in Vedic period. That shows the Vedic society was a
highly civilized and advanced one. Several workers or jobs or professions
are heard only through the Purusha Medha yajna. In the same way Asvamedha
Yajna lists 200 plants and animals for sacrifice. Nobody knew the meaning
of the whole list. They did not even know whether it was a plant or animal
or an insect!! No proof is there to show that all the animals were placed
in the fire. Western “scholars” project themselves as clowns, jesters and
Jokers by giving different interpretations for each word. Their primary aim
was to confuse the Hindus in every sentence, in every word and in every
aspect. *The sycophant English educated Indians of the 19th century also
wrote a lot of rubbish following these “great western scholars”.* Marxists
gave them the lead by interpreting everything as ‘class struggle’! Now we
know those people were pukka idiots because we get a bird’s eye view of the
Vedic literature and Sangam Tamil literature.
The amazing thing about the huge and voluminous Satapatha Brahmana is that
one can find any subject from Astronomy to Zoology in it. But most of the
things they say wouldn’t mean anything if we take them literally. But we
know they were very intelligent because they talk about linguistics,
psychology, botany etc. All these things are said to illustrate that the
Satapatha Brahmana talks about all the stars we know of in astrology and
astronomy. Satapata Brahmana belongs to a period around 1000 BCE. It lists
27 or 28 stars.
There are various interpretations about the meaning of
Nakshatra. The meaning is ‘guardian of night’ or ‘having rule over night’
(Nakta is night). The star appears in all the passages where this word
occurs (2-1-2, 2-1-18) The sun and nakshatras are mentioned together (AV
6-10-3 and later books)! At least three stars are mentioned in the Rig
Veda: Tisya (RV.5-59-13, 10-64-8) Aghas and Arjuni (10-85-13). It seems
probable that they are the later lunar mansions called Maghas and Phalguni.
It occurs in the wedding hymn. Ludwig and Zimmer have seen other references
to the Nakshatras as 27 in the Rig Veda (1-162-18—34 ribs of the
horse=moon, sun, 5 planets and 27 stars); other “scholars” don’t agree with
them. In later Samhitas (hymn books) the connection of the moon and the
stars is conceived as a marriage union. Two samhitas (Khathaka and
Taittiriya) state that Soma/moon was wedded to the mansions, but dwelt with
only with Rohini)
It is very interesting to note that Tamils and other North Indians
did marry only on the Rohini asterism day according to 2000-year-old Sangam
Tamil literature and Vedic literature. It is also interesting to note that
Tamils have special names (multiple names) for all the 27 stars 2000 years
ago. Some of them are Tamilized Sanskrit words or translated Sanskrit words.
K Rajaram IRS 26526
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