APPENDIX B PROPOSED SKELETON OR SCAFFOLDING OF INDIAN CHRONOLOGY KEY DATES Event Geologic event Geologic event. We are in the Warming half cycle between glacial eras Geological Event
Era . The beginning of recorded History in Oral traditions. (Srautic Parampara) Era Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization War
Dynasty Era , Paradigm shift, a phenomenal efflorescence of knowledge, the Vedic Episteme Era Birth Observation Vernal Equinox in Rohini
Individual or detailed Date description End of Glaciation 10,000 BCE Melting of Glaciers. There are believed to be various cycles, shortest being 40,000 years Formation of River 8000 BCE Valley Civilizations The Vedic Era . The ten mandalas of the Rig were composed over a period of 500 years Mehrgarh Culture, early phase Dasarajna War, The Battle of the Ten Kings The Ikshvakus and the Ramayana Brahmana Era, Beginning of
Puranic Era Veda Vyaasa Observation of Nakshatra in which
7000 to 4000 BCE
7000 BCE 7000 BCE
6000 BCE 5000 BCE
5000 BCE – 3000 BCE 3200~3300 BCE ~3100 BCE
the Vernal Equinox occurs War
The Great Bharata War
Paradigm shift to Likhit Parampara
Era of the Sulva Sutras. Sutras of the cord, development of geometry, trigonometry Apastambha
Birth Birth Era Death Writings , scripts had coalesced into codified symbols Writings
Paradigm shift
Era Sarasvati Sindhu civilization Dynasty (Magadha)
Nov 22, 3067 BCE (3102 +‐35 BCE – error caused by changes in Julian calendar) 4000 ~2000 BCE
~3000 BCE
Baudhayana Kali Yuga Sri Krishna Nirvana Pingala
~3200 BCE 3102 BCE 3102 CE 2900 BCE
Panini’s Ashtadhyayi, codification of Vyakarana and other Vedangas Use of Decimal Place Value system (Panini , Pingala). Catalyzed Indic contributions to algebra, number theory, infinite series, spherical trigonometry Mature Phase
2900 BCE
Brhihadratha Dynasty (22 kings, 1006 years)
2900 BCE
3000 BCE – 1700 BCE 3138 BCE‐2132 BCE
Birth Writings
Writings
Dynasty Dynasty Lifespan
Dynasty
Coronation Coronation Dynasty Dynasty Dynasty Writings Writings Reign Writings Dynasty Era Birth Era
Aryabhata
2765 BCE ,337 Yugabda Yajnavalkya, Brihat‐ ~3000 BCE Aranyaka Upanishad, Astronomical Satpatha Brahmana evidence Aryabhata wrote the 2742 BCE Aryabhatiyum when he was 23 years old Pradhyota Dynasty 2132 to 1994 BCE (5 kings, 138 years) Sisunaga Dynasty (10 1994‐1634 BCE kings ,360 years) Gautama Buddha 1887‐1807 BCE puranic and astronomical evidence Nanda Dynasty 1634 – 1534 BCE (Mahapadmananda and his sons) Chandragupta 1534 BCE ‐1500 BCE Maurya Asoka Maurya 1472 BCE Maurya (12 kings 1534‐1218 BCE ,316 years Kushan Empire 1298 BCE Sunga Dynasty (10 1218 – 918 BCE kings, 300 years) Patanjali’s 1218 BCE Mahabhashya Nagarjuna 1294 BCE Kanishka 1298‐1237 BCE Kalidasa I 1158 BCE Kanva Dynasty (4 918‐833 BCE kings,85 years) Andhra Satavahana 833 BCE ‐327 BCE (32 kings , 506 years) Kumarila Bhatta 557 BCE (Mimamsa) Sakanripa Kala (era 550 BCE
Birth
Coronation Coronation War
Dynasty
Coronation Coronation Writings Reign Era Writings
Birth Era Writings
of Cyrus the great of Persia Adi Sankaracharya (has an audience with Hala Satavahana) Alexander of Macedonia Chandragupta of Gupta dynasty Alexander initiates an inconclusive battle with Purushottam, regional kshatrap in the Punjab and is forced to retreat short of his goal of vanquishing the great empire of India Imperial Gupta Dynasty (7 kings, 245 years) Chandragupta Samudragupta VarahaMihira Pancha Siddhanta Vikramaditya Vikrama Saka named after Vikramaditya Kalidasa II,author of Raghuvamsa ,Jyotirvidabharana Brahmagupta Salivahana Calendar( Punwar dynasty) Bhaskara II,aka Bhaskaracharya Siddhanta Siromani
509 BCE‐477 BCE
336 BCE 327 BCE 326 BCE
327 BCE‐82 BCE
327 BCE 320 BCE 123 BCE 102 BCE to 78 BCE 57 BCE 57 BCE
30 BCE 78 CE 486 CE
Dynasty Era Era Writings Dynasty coronation coronation Dynasty Beginning of Islamic Era
Era Era Reconquista begins and the Fall of Toledo Era Era Era Era Dynasty Dynasty Dynasty
Era
Punwar Dynasty (23 Kings,1111 years) Christian Era Salivahana (Saka Calendar) Kalidasa III (lived in Bhoja’s time Pala Empire Bhoja Raja’s coronation SriHarsha Sailaditya Chola Empire Prithviraj Chamahana the last major Indic dynasty in North India Delhi Sultanate The Hoysalas Toledo, the great Muslim center of learning falls into Christian hands The Kakatiyas Bahmani Confederation Vijayanagar Empire The Mughal Empire The Maratha Confederacy The Sikh Confederacy The British Empire. The British Royalty were mostly of German ancestry The Modern Republic
82 BCE‐1193 CE 0 (Yugabda 3102) 78 CE 638 CE 750‐1174 CE 648 CE 648 CE 848 CE – 1279 CE 1192 CE
1192 CE – 1526 CE 1040 CE–1346 CE 1085 CE
1083 CE–1323 CE 1390 CE ‐1596 CE 1339 CE ‐1625 CE 1526 CE – 1757 CE 1674 CE – 1818 CE 1716 CE – 1849 CE 1757 CE – 1947 CE
1950 CE