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The Mahabharata War timeline: Beginning with Krishna leaving from Upaplavya, on Revati Nakshatra, in the month of lotuses and ending with the day of Bhishma Nirvana ( A period of 5 months!
Sept 5561 BCE through January 5560 BCE)
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The Mahabharata War timeline: Beginning with Krishna leaving from Upaplavya, on Revati Nakshatra, in the month of lotuses and ending with the day of Bhishma Nirvana ( A period of 5 months!
Sept 5561 BCE through January 5560 BCE)
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Krishna leaves from Upaplavya on a peace mission.
Krishna leaves from Upaplavya on a peace mission.
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Krishna at Hastinapur Sabha on a Pushya day (peace mission)
Krishna at Hastinapur Sabha on a Pushya day (peace mission)
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Krishna-Karna meeting near Hastinapura, 7 days before Shakra Amavasya.
Krishna-Karna meeting near Hastinapura, 7 days before Shakra Amavasya.
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Krishna returns to Upaplavya. Balarama comes to Krishna and then leaves for Sarasvati on Maitri (Anuradha) nakshatra.
Krishna returns to Upaplavya. Balarama comes to Krishna and then leaves for Sarasvati on Maitri (Anuradha) nakshatra.
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Balarama Tirthayatra
Balarama Tirthayatra
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Shalya CE 34:14
रौहिणेये गते शूरे पुष्येण मधुसूदनः |
पाण्डवेयान्पुरस्कृत्य ययावभिमुखः कुरून् ||
Pandavas left for Kurukshetra (from Upaplavya) on Pushya.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence
5 October 5561 BCE
Shalya CE 34:14
रौहिणेये गते शूरे पुष्येण मधुसूदनः |
पाण्डवेयान्पुरस्कृत्य ययावभिमुखः कुरून् ||
Pandavas left for Kurukshetra (from Upaplavya) on Pushya.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence
5 October 5561 BCE
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Armies arrived at Kurukshetra on Magha.
Armies arrived at Kurukshetra on Magha.
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The first day of the Mahabharata War
Kartika Amavasya, 16 October 5561 BCE.
Uttara & Shweta, Virata's sons were killed on this day.
The first day of the Mahabharata War
Kartika Amavasya, 16 October 5561 BCE.
Uttara & Shweta, Virata's sons were killed on this day.
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Day 1. Fighting stopped at sunset. It was too dark to decipher anything.
Bhishma CE 45:62
ततः सैन्येषु भग्नेषु मथितेषु च सर्वशः |
प्राप्ते चास्तं दिनकरे न प्राज्ञायत किञ्चन ||६२||
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
16 October 5561 BCE
Day 1. Fighting stopped at sunset. It was too dark to decipher anything.
Bhishma CE 45:62
ततः सैन्येषु भग्नेषु मथितेषु च सर्वशः |
प्राप्ते चास्तं दिनकरे न प्राज्ञायत किञ्चन ||६२||
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
16 October 5561 BCE
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Day 2. Fighting stopped at sunset. The darkness on the battlefield before and after sunset.
Day 2. Fighting stopped at sunset. The darkness on the battlefield before and after sunset.
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Day 3. Fighting stopped at sunset. Armies returned to their camps before the night began.
Day 3. Fighting stopped at sunset. Armies returned to their camps before the night began.
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Day 4. The fighting stopped at or before sunset. Armies returned to their camps before the night.
Day 4. The fighting stopped at or before sunset. Armies returned to their camps before the night.
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Day 5. The fighting stopped at the sunset.
Day 5. The fighting stopped at the sunset.
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Bhishma CE 75:56
अन्योन्यागस्कृतां राजन्यमराष्ट्रविवर्धनम् |
मुहूर्तास्तमिते सूर्ये चक्रुर्युद्धं सुदारुणम् ||
Day 6: The fighting continued for a muhurta, past the sunset.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
21 October 5561 BCE
Bhishma CE 75:56
अन्योन्यागस्कृतां राजन्यमराष्ट्रविवर्धनम् |
मुहूर्तास्तमिते सूर्ये चक्रुर्युद्धं सुदारुणम् ||
Day 6: The fighting continued for a muhurta, past the sunset.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
21 October 5561 BCE
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Day 7. The fighting stopped around the sunset.
Day 7. The fighting stopped around the sunset.
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Day 8. The fighting continued even after the sunset.
Day 8. The fighting continued even after the sunset.
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Day 9. The fighting continued into the night.
Day 9. The fighting continued into the night.
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Day 10: The fighting stopped with Bhishma falling in the battle, when a little of the daylight was remaining.
Phenomenal evidence of Bhishma Nirvana begins from this day.
Only 5561 BCE can corroborate this evidence.
25 October 5561 BCE
Day 10: The fighting stopped with Bhishma falling in the battle, when a little of the daylight was remaining.
Phenomenal evidence of Bhishma Nirvana begins from this day.
Only 5561 BCE can corroborate this evidence.
25 October 5561 BCE
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Day 11. Drona as the Senapati of the Kaurava army. The fighting continued into the night.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
26 October 5561 BCE
Day 11. Drona as the Senapati of the Kaurava army. The fighting continued into the night.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence.
26 October 5561 BCE
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Day 12. Both armies slowly withdrew from the battle after the sunset.
Day 12. Both armies slowly withdrew from the battle after the sunset.
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The 12th day of the War brings out another set of evidence that won't stop until the war is over.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence
27 October 5561 BCE
The 12th day of the War brings out another set of evidence that won't stop until the war is over.
Only 5561 BCE corroborates this evidence
27 October 5561 BCE
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13th day of the War. The great warrior Abhimanyu was killed on this day.
13th day of the War. The great warrior Abhimanyu was killed on this day.
