Mahabharata war was fought out in or about 1190 B.C

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By Pradip Bhattaacharya Published 06/3/2007 Category: Articles on Hinduism Foreword

In "Vyasa and Valmiki" Sri Aurobindo refers to a “recent article of the Indian Review” on the date of the Mahabharata war praising it as “an unusually able and searching (or almost conclusive) paper”. It was Velandai Gopala Aiyer’s “The Date of the Mahabharata War” published in Vol. II, January-December 1901 of this monthly journal (Indian Review) edited by G.A. Natesan.

Sri Aurobindo was obviously fully convinced by Aiyer’s arguments, because elsewhere he writes, “It is now known beyond reasonable doubt that the Mahabharata war was fought out in or about 1190 B.C.”Aiyer had published a previous paper in the same journal fixing the date of the beginning of the Kaliyuga from four different sources... Articles Scriptures Meditation