D.K. HARI - Ayodhya: War & Peace

B harath Gyan has been collating specific, scientific knowledge of India, using ancient knowledge sources and modern scientific tools and methods, from a present day perspective and relevance.

The knowledge of the Indian civilization is available scattered in various forms - books, manuscripts, oral tradition amongst scholars, various art forms, customs and traditions of the land.

The current generation is facing a barrier in reaching out to this knowledge due to the limited availability and access to such resources, the ancient languages and the style of expression used, the approach to the subjects etc., all of which are in contrast to the present day system of expression or understanding.

In Bharath Gyan, as part of our quest for the specific scientific knowledge and practices of the civilization, we have come across many stories, ideas, views, theories, factual events and statements.

With the help of traditional scholars with a modern bent of mind and modern scientists open to traditional knowledge systems, we have endeavoured to carefully sift through all this data, with an inquisitive, rational, logical and scientific mind to understand the knowledge from a fresh interdisciplinary perspective. The outcome of this analysis is the compilation of Bharath Gyan.

Over 10 years, spanning across 108 subjects, the independent facts and data collated, self validate and corroborate each other beautifully in this compilation, as pieces of a jigsaw.

Bharath Gyan, a not for profit, research organization, is in the process of bringing this knowledge out through far reaching and engaging mediums so that it can be easily understood and enjoyed by all across the world.

The objective is to bring out this knowledge and wisdom, in relevance to current day topics of interest, trials and tribulations faced by Indians as well as the world.

Besides filling the readers with wonder at the not-so-commonly known scientific facets of our ancient civilization, it is hoped that this knowledge and approach of the ancients will kindle or aid future research for the benefit of science and mankind.

Can we make the past converge with the present for the future?

Ours is perhaps not the first effort in this direction, neither should it be the last

As one of the initiatives, Bharath Gyan , encouraged by His Holiness
Sri Sri Ravishankar, has entered into an alliance with the Art of Living group to jointly repurpose the compiled knowledge into various knowledge products for dissemination to the community at large.

Our website www.bharathgyan.com provides more insights into our activities.

The Authors, D.K. Hema Hari and D.K. Hari

Conceptualizers, Bharath Gyan

T he epic Ramayana, is considered as one of th e masterpieces of poetry in Samskrt language. It was composed by the poet Valmiki to eulogize Rama, the king of Ayodhya and showcase Ramas righteous character. Right from the time of Ramas life to this day, Rama, the king of Ayodhya, has also been revered by many, as an incarnation of God on earth and is one of the popular divinities of the land. The Ramayana epic therefore is also revered as a holy book.

Apart from faith, from a literary point of view, for over thousands of years, this work has been classified as an Itihasa, historical text of the land. In recent times, over the last couple of centuries however, this text got categorized as mythological.

As part of Bharath Gyan compilation, we have been compiling facts about India, her knowledge, global relations across times and across multiple disciplines of knowledge, from various sources and formats.

When put together and seen from a wholistic, logical and rational perspective, these facts indicate credibility of Rama having l ived about 7000 years ago, around 5100 BCE, which we have brought out in our work titled Historical Rama.

Our further work, looking at Rama and the events of Ramayana from the land of Sri Lanka, where some of the major events of Ramayana took place, also corroborate the historicity of Rama as well as Ravana, the King of Lanka and his clan. We have compiled this in the book titled, Ramayana In Lanka.

The facts from multiple disciplines and dimensions such as Archaeology, Marine Archaeology, Archaeo-Astronomy etc, confirm not only the historicity of Rama and the people around Him but they also confirm the Geography of the lands and the convergence of History with the Geography of the two lands across the seas, namely India and
Sri Lanka.

Coming to Archaeology, most of the events of Ramayana unfolded at Ayodhya, the forests in Central India and at Lanka. Given this, the main sites that could be of archaeological interest in India, are the Nala Setu , the bridge built by Ramas team of the Vanara army and the city of Ayodhya and its surrounds. We have dealt with the Nala Setu in detail in our books Historical Rama and Ramayana in Lanka. As we started studying Ayodhya, we realized that it would warrant a separate, in depth attention, given the amount of recent history also attached to it.

We therefore present here, our compilation of data on Ayodhya through the times, in the shape of this book, Ayodhya - War and Peace.

From these compilations, what comes to light is that, the ancient kingdom of Kosala, with Ayodhya as the capital, as described in literature and the present day city of Ayodhya, are one and the same. This makes the Ayodhya of today, one of the most ancient cities of the world, with a long historical record of an unbroken, continuity of civilization over 7000 years.