Presently, at 70, trying to run this website without any commercial expectations or profit motive, just for the sake of our future generations to understand about Sanatana Dharma Srivaishnavam sampradayam.Within my limited knowledge that I put it here, what I learnt from the world.Sri Bhagavatham deals with the geography of the world in a great detail.
Please read for understanding what we say during Sankalpam We are always curious to know the meaning of the Sankalpam that we take before the start of a pooja or a ritual. Firstly, we need to know the Hindu Cosmic cycle. Mahayuga Sum of 4 Yugas(Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali). Brahma also known as a Kalpa. The reigning period of a manu is onemanvantara which is 71.42 mahayugas. There is an equivalent night-time of 4,320,000,000 years. The day-night of Brahma together constitutes one Brahma day (8.64 billion years). Brahma days constitute a Brahma year while 360 years represent the lifetime of Brahma which is the life of the cosmos. Doing this simple calculation gives the age of the cosmos to be 311 trillion years. Carl Sagan, the noted scientist says in relation to this, The Hindu religion is the only one of the worlds great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. We are presently in the Sveta-Varaha kalpa in the reigning period of Vaivaswatha - the 7th manu. As per our Cosmology, Brahma is supposed to have completed 50 Brahma years and is in his51st year. That is why he is called Parardha-dvaya-jivin(ie) he lives for two parardhas. These terminologies makes better sense in relation to the Sankalpa. Kanchi Paramachaaryaal says the Sankalpam is a kind of record of what you performed with finer details going down to the dayand location of the ritual. It seems to me the forerunner for a kind of book keeping or a system of maintaining minutes of a meeting. To understand the phrases in the Sankalpam we need to understand the concept of the Cosmic Cycle and Cosmic time calculations Cosmic Cycle Time, as per Hindu practices, has evolved and revolves around the life cycle of Brahma, the Creator. Cosmic cycles are infinitely recurring periods of the universe, comprising its creation, preservation and dissolution. Time Calculations We start by using a calendaryear as the basis. One year for humans represents one day for the divine beings. Mahayuga comprising the 4 yugas of Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali yugas. Yuga comprises of thefollowing calendar years: Kali yuga 432,000 years Dwapara yuga 864.000 years Treta yuga 1,296,000 years Krita yuga 1,728,000 years. Kalpa Total for one Mahayuga (Also called Chatur Yuga) 4,320,000 years or 4.32 million years. Mahayugas constitutes one Manvantara (i.e.) the life of a Manu, the law giver ( we are in the 28thMahayuga) 14 such Manvantaras make one dayor Kalpa of the Creator Brahma. Brahma ( called Ahoratras ) 360 ahoratras 1 year of Brahma Parardhe Half the life span of Brahma, OR 50 Brahma years. We are in the 51st Brahma Year, OR the second or Dwiteya Pararadhe Two Parardhe: Life span of Brahma ie 100 years After that, pralaya equal to the duration of 2 parardhas take place, and at its end, a new cycle starts. Jamboo dveepE Then, the Sankalpa refers to the geographical position of the place where the ritual is performed. This could be the historical or mythological name of the place.
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