Historical Krishna
                      

Krishna is one of the most endearing hero and divinity of the Hindus and India.

His historicity has never been in doubt over the past 5000 years.

In the last couple of 100 years some European scholars used so called scientific methods of their days and reduced Krishna to a mythical figure. Using present day scientific methods we have once again established his historicity.

Towards this effort a 4 pronged approach has been used.

  1. Literary
  2. Geographical, Ecological
  3. Archaeology
  4. Astronomy

  1. Literary sources used

    1. Mahabharatha
    2. Harivamsa
    3. Vishnu Purana
    4. Bhagavata Purana
    5. Buddhist Text - Sutra Pitaka
    6. Greek records
    7. Pura Naanooru - Tamil text

  2. Geographical, Ecological

    1. Tsunami destruction of Dwaraka, correlate with Biblical floods and Gilgamesh period flood.
    2. Sea level rise factor
    3. Desiccation time of Saraswati river civilization

  3. Archaeological evidences of submerged city off the coastline of present day Dwaraka. The archaeological spread and their construction tallies with the literary information mentioned of the plan layout of Dwaraka city.

  4. Astronomy

    1. Modern planetarium software has led to a new way of dating events of the past. This field is now called archaeo astronomy. This is one of the most recent and precise methods of dating past events based on actual observations then. There are over 150 astronomical observations during Krishna's period which can be plotted back now.

    2. Dating of then pole star Alpha Draconis - Thuban - Dhruvan
    3. Maha Sivarathiri occurs on winter solstice day during Mahabharatha period.

    With this 4 pronged approach we are able to date the historicity of Krishna in fairly precise terms to 3102 B C E.