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SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA

Taking the age-old practices as cue and analysing them (for better 
understanding) with the information from ancient texts in the
light of what we gather as inputs from modern science, grahana punya 
kaalam is not an occasion to be dreaded. Whatever happens by way 
of 'pollution' is to affect the digestive energy of individuals only. 
Or else it is about a rare occasion when pithrus can be offered 
oblations as a rare kind of offering. It is perhaps due to the fact 
that pithrus descend on such occasions for prolonged duartion, that 
all other vEdik activities are stopped or closed, and cleaning by 
water is done after they have left, as done when some one departs to 
the other world.

The various stories related to grahanam being an inauspicious moment 
is perhapes attributed to the horrific spectacle that prevailed and 
perhaps continued for decades till the entire yadhava kingdom was 
washed off, as a result of or as a sequence of the solar eclipse that 
took place before the onset of Kurukshetra war when as against the 
usual movement, all the planets in teh sky went retrograde suddenly 
in big measures with Mars hopping precariously forward and backward, 
Rahu and Ketu going retrograde suddenly by 24* in the sky and the 
moon jumping over 2 days and (as a result) amavasya occurring just 
after dwadhasi! 

Terrific happenings that happened around that time as described by 
sage Vyasa, in chapters 2 & 3 of Bheeshma parva point out to either a 
sudden and violent change in the earth's tilt as effected by a 
terrific wobbling in its motion, which could have been a natural 
phenomenon in its motion or could have been effected by two supernova 
explosions witnessed just opposite to the Sun , in the constellation 
of Scorpio (as described by the sage). The events described by the 
sage though so terrific but are not clearly due to the eclipse, but 
some other cause. Otherwise nowhere else such happenings have  been 
reported and here again these have not been associated with eclipse. 
But fear psychosis has overtaken and over a period of time eclipse 
has come to be associated with aspects not related to them.

Regards, 
jayasree saranathan





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