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days and the calendar of the period shows date-wise record of the incidents that took place during the period. It fits in with the time-cycle of Jainism. ! have made all this analysis in my article captioned, 'The Jain Time Cycle and Cosmic Calendar.'
. Only a few years ago, the American science magazine entitled 'Discover' presented photographs of fossils of birds with 11.5 feet long and 23 feet broad wings.
Science has been searching the gigantic living world of ancient times and has procured fossils of gigantic animals such as the dinosaur. On the basis of these fossils, scientists believe that the height of their body was at least 150 feet and their existence belonged to an age prior to 7 crore years. The Jain biology places the dinosaur in the one part of phylum reptiles
hparisarpa. The mongoose etc. of the present times belong to ame phylum.According to the Jain scriptures, namely, the Jivābhigama, the Pannavanā etc., the utmost height of these living organisms varies from two Gāus (1 Gāu = 3.2 km) to 9 Gāus. If the utmost height of the dinosaur was 2 Gāus , the utmost height of man was 3 Gāus in those times. According to this calculation, the height of dinosaur is 2/3 of the height of man. If one Dhanuşya is equal to six feet, the height of the dinosaur determined on the
fossils is 25 Dhanusyas and the height of man of those times was 37.5 Dhanuşyas. Man of this height lived in the times of Bhagavān śāntinātha, the sixteenth Tirthankara and according to the calculation of time-cycle these times were prior to three Sāgarāpamas.
Though there is an appreciable difference between three Sāgarāpamas years and 7 crore years, we can say it beyond doubt that the inference of 7 crore years is wrong because the method with which the antiquity of ancient fossils is determined seems to be wrong method. This method used the isotopes of carbon-14(C-14). Regarding this method it is written in the book entitled 'The pyramid Power' -
“Unfortunately, it now appears that the dates obtained through the use of this method are highly questionable, since contamination from present day organic materials could substantially affect the process. Archaeologists now believe that most of the sites dated with carbon-14 are older than the dating process showed that they were. There is currently an
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| SR No. | 001603 |
| Book Title | Scientific Secrets of Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nandighoshvijay |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 378 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Science, Religion, & Articles |
| File Size | 21 MB |