Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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present calculation, dinosaurs lived perhaps nearly seven crore years ago. But the Jain scriptures mention quite a different calculation. A Dhanuşya (bow) is equal to six feet and the length of a dinosaur is nearly 25 Dhanuşyas (bow). Supposing that the length of a dinosaur was equal to one-third of the height of man, when man was 75 Dhanuşyas (bow) tall, the dinosaur was 25 Dhanusyas long. Man's height in the interim of the times of the eleventh Tirthankara Sri Śrēyāmsanātha and the twelfth Tirthankara śri Vāsupujyasvāmi was nearly 75 Dhanusyas. Therefore, it can be said that the dinosaur belonged to that period.
According to another calculation, when man was 3 Gāus in height (1 Gāu=3.2 kms) the reptile was 2 Gāus in length. Therefore, when man was 1 Gāu tall, the reptile was 2/3 Gāu long and when man was 500 Dhanusyas tall in the times of Bhagavān Śri Adinātha, the reptile was 333 Dhanuşyas long. This means that when the dinosaur was 25 Dhanuşyas long, man was 37.5 Dhanusyas tall and man had this height in the interim of the times of Śri. śāntinātha, the Sixteenth Tirthankara and śri Kunthunātha, the seventeenth Tirthankara. It, therefore, does not at all seem to be improbable or impossible that the existence of the dinosaur belongs to the period beginning before nearly 47 Sāgarōpamas and ending before nearly at least three Sāgar According to the cosmic calendar, the gigantic dinosaur was born on the 30th December and the Jain-time-cycle shows nearly the same. It coincides with the 30th December of the modern cosmic calendar because 365 days of the cosmic calendar are equal to 180° (180°-00-00--01" to 360°-00-00--00*') of Jain-time-cycle.
Moreover, the methods of modern scientists for deciding the life-span of archaeological objects is faulty according to the calculations of the Jain-timecycle and it is natural to be because according to the Brhatsangrahani, the speed of transformation of objects decreases as time passes in Utsarpinikāla i.e. first half of the Jain-time-cycle, and the speed of transformation of increase as time passes in Avasarpinikāla i.e. later half of the Jain-time-cycle. The Jain scriptures also give a theory for this. The life-span of human beings varies from 16 to 20 years and they are nearly 1 hand (1.5 feet) tall in the beginning of Utsarpiņikāla. When the first ārā of 21000 years and the second ārā of 21000 years come to an end, their height varies from 5 to 6 hands and their life-span is nearly of 80 years. As time passes, the transformation