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Mahavira Era
five months,-605 years, five months-had passed away since Vira Jina attained moksha.
-(We count the numbers 1780+ 19220=21000 of Saṁbat sars upto Paridhāvi Sambatsara as the numbers of months and thereafter enumerate the whole period of Vira's era 1750 years (21000:12). when the Sravakāchāra of Mahānandi was written, i.e. 47 BVE.
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The Usra Major i.e. Seven Star group-Saptarshi Mandala changes a constellation after every 100 years. The total no. of constellation is 27. At the time of Mahābhārata the Usra Major was in Maghã (10th lunar mansion) and now after a full cycle of 27 lunar mansions, and in the third round it has changed 5 lunar mansions and entered in the second half of the 6th lunar mansionArdră, as ellustrated above.
Betelgeuse (Ardrā) move in between the two Usra Major (small & big) from right to left, which can be seen perpendicularly above, the Arcturus (Swāti).
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