River Sarasvati: When Geology Weds Itihasa | Nilesh Oak |

River Sarasvati evidence is the common link among Rigveda, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and the vast ancient Indian narratives. Despite this, enormous evidence, a whole lot of biased, confused and agenda driven narratives have questioned the existence and antiquity of Sarasvati.
This talk quadrangulates evidence from hydrology, geology, geophysics, climatology, morpho-dynamics of rivers along with astronomy, oceanography, archaeology and genetics to validate River Sarasvati.

About the Speaker
Nilesh Oak is an author, researcher, speaker, and a faculty at the Instt of Advanced Sciences in Dartmouth, U.S.A. He has written on Bhishma Nirvana, Ram-Ravan yuddh, and the timeline of Mahabharat. His writings on Indian civilizational history are based on scientific research and evidence based reasoning

He has authored many books, including When did the Mahabharata War Happen? The Mystery of Arundhati, where he freshly evaluated astronomy observations of Mahabharata text. His work led to validation of 5561 BCE as the year of Mahabharata War while falsifying more than 120 alternate claims. The book was nominated for the Lakatos award; the award is given annually by London School of Economics for a contribution to the philosophy of science. In this second book- The Historic Rama, he decisively falsifies timelines proposed by Dr. P V Vartak (7300 BCE), Shri Pushkar Bhatnagar (5200 BCE), SRS ( 10000 BCE) and M R Yardi ( 1500 BCE) Nilesh researches in astronomy, archeology, anthropology, quantum mechanics, economics, ancient narratives and philosophy.


Topics Covered
0:00 Introduction
3:45 Geological evidence of Sarasvati
5:22 Around 70,000 BCE, the course of the river shifted towards north & west.
6:18 70,000-50000 BCE – Yamuna separated from Sarasvati
8:20 13000BCE : changes in Shatudri. River started drying up around 4500 BCE
9:46 What is happening with Sarasvati—Fraud, Rhetoric & Truth (Tamas, Rajas, Sattva)
12:10 Evidence from Nadi-suktam
15:00 Some of the western thinkers who constitute the Neo-Colonial/ Anti-India lobby
16:15 …their lackeys in India. e.g. Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar
19:00 The Fraudsters in popular media—RS Sharma, Devdutt Patnaik, Roopa Pai, Tony Joseph
23:16 Tamasic mind
25:40 Rajasic buddhi
31:45 Books for reference
33:50The Pro-Indian but outdated Scholarly Consensus
35:30 The Satvic narrative
37:46 The faulty narrative. Scholarly narrative vs Evidence
43:30 Nadi suktam + Rigveda description of Sarasvati
48:00 Moving of tectonic plates
49:56 1970 map of the River by Prof. Ghosh
53:52 Empirical evidence connected to Scriptural evidence
55:50 Try to match shruti and pratyaksh pramana with Anumana by Samarth Ramdas Swami
57:18 River signatures
1:00:22 13000 BCE : Shatudri separates
1:01:55 Perennial is not the same as Glacier fed?
1:03:37 Sarasvati traced in Rann of Kachh
1:07:30 Nilesh Oak’s prediction
1:09:46 Nilesh’s dating of Ramayan & Mahabharat corroborates his views on Sarasvati
1:1:11 Key takeaways
1:13:25 What role can common people play to spread this narrative?
1:15:21 What exactly is rhetoric?
1:22:00 further corroboration from Skanda Purana
1:24:35 How do we place Sarasvati at Prayagraj? – Ans: Emotional memory
1:28:27 Oak’s Dating of Dashrajna war
1:29:00 Did Mongols evolve from Orangutans?
1:31:05 A multipoint origin of human beings
1:32:27 Faulty dating of separating of Shatudri & Yamuna in scholarly studies
1:44:26 How do we know that there was a civilization on the banks of this river?

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