{"id":319,"date":"2012-05-20T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2012-05-20T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T19:49:17","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-age-of-humanity-still-unsolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/the-mystery-of-the-age-of-humanity-still-unsolved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Age of Humanity: Still Unsolved"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one has yet posted a solution to the riddle of the eighteen million years age of physical humanity versus the one hundred and twenty million years age of our current humanity. There seems to be no obvious explanation of why the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em> gave the eighteen million years age for the current Vaivasvata manvantara, quoted in full agreement in The Secret Doctrine<\/em> (vol. 2, pp. 68-69), while according to all known sources the age of the Vaivasvata manvantara should be one hundred and twenty million years. The answer to this may have been given by H. P. Blavatsky in a fragmentary article published posthumously as \u201cOn Cosmic Cycles, Manvantaras, and Rounds\u201d (Blavatsky Collected Writings<\/em>, vol. 13, pp. 301-306), if anyone who is good at numbers can figure it out.<\/p>\n

In this article, HPB writes (p. 302): \u201cThe astrological work states that: — 3. \u2018The number of years that elapsed since the beginning of Vaivasvata Manvantara — Equals 18,618,725 years.\u2019\u201d This very same statement is made in The Secret Doctrine<\/em> (vol. 2, pp. 68-69), where it is taken from the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em> (the one for the kali yuga year 4986; see SD vol. 2, p. 51). So obviously \u201cthe astrological work\u201d referred to in HPB\u2019s fragmentary article is the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em>. The calculations that she gives in this article may therefore pertain to how the eighteen million years figure is obtained. We should here recall that, for HPB, this figure is the age of humanity \u201con our planet D, in the present Round\u201d (p. 302). In the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em>, this figure is apparently given for the age of the Vaivasvata manvantara as a whole, an age that from other sources should be one hundred and twenty million years. I am hoping that someone who is good at numbers can figure this out.<\/p>\n

In a small book that Daniel Caldwell called my attention to, Occult Chronology<\/em>, by James Arther (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1943; http:\/\/blavatskyarchives.com\/theosophypdfs\/early_theosophical_publications_chrono.htm; http:\/\/hpb.narod.ru\/Occult_Chronology.htm), the author refers to the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em> and says (near the end of the book, no page number): \u201cThe Adyar Library is not in possession of a copy, and I have not yet been able to secure one. If anybody is the fortunate possessor of, or can lay his hand on, a copy, it would be greatly appreciated if he would make the Adyar Library the happy recipient of it.\u201d This may have happened. I contacted the Adyar Library and learned from Prof. C. A. Shinde that although the Adyar library does not have the particular issue that HPB used, for kali yuga 4986 or 1884-1885 C.E., it does have several previous years of the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em>, 1870-1881. These should all give the same epochs that the 1884-1885 issue gives. I have requested material from these. When it arrives, it may (or may not) be possible to determine how the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em> arrived at its eighteen million years age of the Vaivasvata manvantara.<\/p>\n

The ratio and calculations given by HPB in the fragmentary article referred to above are highly unusual, and do not fit in with other things she gave. Nonetheless, no one has yet been able to figure out how the eighteen million year figure was derived by the normal calculations, using the ratio 1:2:3:4. So perhaps further efforts using the ratio 1:2:3:4:5:6:7 will solve this riddle. Right now, the eighteen million years age of humanity is based only on an occult claim, apparently supported by reference to a once used calendar\/almanac, the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em>. But unless we can determine how the Tirukkanda Panchanga<\/em> arrived at this figure, its evidence is little more than one more unverifiable claim. I have not found any other reference in any other Hindu text supporting this age for the Vaivasvata manvantara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one has yet posted a solution to the riddle of the eighteen million years age of physical humanity versus the one hundred and twenty million years age of our current humanity. There seems to be no obvious explanation of why the Tirukkanda Panchanga gave the eighteen million years age for the current Vaivasvata manvantara, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occult-chronology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}