Jijith Nadumuri Ravi@Jijith_NR
Puranas does the unthinkable!🔥
Three Puranas - Matsya, Vayu and Brahmanda - preserve the names of every king who ruled after the Kurukshetra War and before the historical king Mahapadma Nanda!🔥
They preserve even the period each king ruled, to the minutest detail!🔥
This detailing continues for every king of Nandas, Mauryas, Sungas, Kanvas and Satavahanas with Guptas mentioned as a group.
We show here upto Mahapadma Nanda's coronation.
Ever seen all these names together in one picture?
While the Buddhist and Jain sources preserve many events related to a few of these kings as they interacted with Buddha or Mahavira, only the Puranas preserved the full chronology from the Kurukshetra War to the rule of the Nandas, Mauryas, Sungas, Kanvas, and Satavahanas.
But the most important shock it gives is this:-
Puranas make sense only if the Kurukshetra War is dated to 1793 BCE or in the dates close to it.🔥
A simple glance at this research will tell you this.
Look at the table with every king who ruled after the Kurukshetra War upto the coronation of Mahapadma Nanda.
One column has their regnal years based on Kurukshetra War dated to 1793 BCE.
Another column based on the 3138 BCE as the Kurukshetra War - a representative date for the 3200-3000 BCE period.
Now here is the fun!🔥
When you put 3138 BCE as the Kurukshetra War, all these kings become contemporary to the Sarasvati Sindhu Civilisation and its Early, Mature and Late Harappan phases!
You all know this great civilisation thrived in North West India in the region of the Sarasvati, Sindhu and their tributary networks.
But these kings ruled to their east along the Ganga, Sarayu, Gandaki and Shona in UP and Bihar.
Are you able to detect the anomaly?🔥
Not even a single mention of the great Sarasvati Sindhu Civilisation in any of the Puranas as contemporary to any of these kings! 🔥
You all know that, when the Early and Mature Phases of the Sarasvati Sindhu Civilisation were thriving in 3300-1900 BCE, its eastern region around the Ganga was less developed and less prosperous.
But, those who date the Kurukshetra War in 3200-3000 BCE want to argue that these kings ruled as the poor eastern neighbours of the highly prosperous IVC / Harappan / Sarasvati Sindhu Region along the Ganga Basin!
But they have no evidence to show the prosperity of Ganga basin in 3300-1900 BCE compared to the prosperity of Sarasvati and Sindhu in the same period to the west of Ganga!🔥
Contrast this with our chronology.
We correctly identify 3300-1900 BCE Early and Mature Harappan phases of Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization as the Rgvedic Period.
Our Santanu lived in 1950-1850 BCE, and the Kurukshetra War is dated to 1793 BCE.
Then the regnal periods of these kings correctly align with the Late Harappan Period and its continuity upto 364 BCE when the coronation of Mahapadma Nanda happened as per the mainstream chronology!🔥
Not even one year added or subtracted!🔥
Every king aligns perfectly well. 🔥
Including Jarasandha's son Sahadeva, who was killed in the Kurukshetra War, his last descendant Ripunjaya, and the later Magadha kings like the famous Bimbisara and Ajatasatru as correctly contemporary to Buddha in the 6th and 5th century BCE, Mahanandin and his ouster by Mahapadma Nanda in 364 BCE.
Everything aligns perfectly!🔥