From: Kutch Science Foundation kutchsciencefoundation@... Subject:
HAPPY KUTCHI NEW YEAR and RATH YATRA on ASHADHI BBEJ(Dwij) day of KUTCHI NEW
YEAR - legends - PUBLIC SCIENCE and Astronomy.

Dear friends of Kutch, Science Astronomy and History,



According to legends : Lord Jagannath said to have expressed His desire to visit
His birthplace Gundicha Ghar once every year. According to others Subhadra
wanted to visit Dwarka, her parents home therefore, her two brothers Jagannath
and Balabhadra took her there on this day. According to Bhagavad Puran on this
day. Krishna and Balaram went to Mathura on the invitation of Kansa to
participate in the competition. The entire Ratha Yatra is a symbolic
humanisation of God. All rituals associated with the festival demonstrate an
attempt to bring the God down from His pedestal of glory to a more human level.
On the day of journey the three chariots the yellow coloured Nandighosa, blue
coloured Taladwaja and Deviratha are lined up in front of the temple and then
the deities are brought on to their respective Chariots. Once the king of Puri
the living symbol of Lord Jagannath sweeps the chariots with scented water and
golden broom, the pilgrims lined up with the rope pull the chariots on the
Badadanda to Gundicha Ghar.
Ratha Yatra commemorates when Krishna and Balaram went from Vrindavan to Mathura
in Akruras' Ratha, even though the Vaishnava deep meaning is the opposite. It's
the ecstatic mood when The Lord came back from Dwarka to Vrindavan. The cleansed
heart, as the dear song says: 'antara mandire jago jago Madhava Krishna Gopal !,
please arise in the temple of my heart'.
According to another legend, Subhadra wanted to visit Dwarika, her parent's
home, and her brothers Jagannatha and Balabhadra took her there on this day. The
Ratha Yatra is said to be a commemoration of that visit. According to a legend
in the Bhagavad Purana, Kansa sent his messenger to Gokul to ask Krishna to
visit Mathura and participate in the great wrestling competition. It is believed
that it was on this day that Krishna and Balarama went to Mathura to participate
in the competition.
Another says, Lord Krishna vanquished evil Kansa and gave the devotees Darshan
in Mathura, in a chariot with his brother Balaram.
In Dwarka, the victory over evil is celebrated with devotees showing the sister
Shubadra the city in a chariot alongwith Krishna and Balaram.
Once in Dwarka, Lord Krishna's eight queens requested mother Rohini to narrate
the divine episodes of Lord Krishna with the Gopis while he was in Vraj. For a
while Rohini did not agree. Finally, after a lot of insistence she gave away.
However, considering it unbecoming of Subhadra to hear such episodes (Leela),
she sent her to guard the palace doorway. Yet the Vrajkatha soon absorbed
Subhadra. Soon, Lord Shri Krishna and Balaram arrived at the doorway. With arms
wide apart, she stood between the two, preventing them from entering. However,
from where they stood, Rohini's katha soon engrossed them all! Just then sage
Narad arrived. Seeing the siblings standing together like murtis, he humbly
prayed, 'May the three of you grant darshan in this manner forever.' The Lord
granted the boon. And the three eternally reside in the Jagannath Mandir in
Puri.There's also an interesting story of Krishna becoming Sarthi of Arjun's
Chariot in Mahabharata and giving him Life's advice.
A story which has been passed on from mouth to mouth, concerns about what
happened after the cremation of Lord Krishna's mortal body...When Shri Krishna
was being cremated in Dwarika, Balaram overcame with grief and dashed into the
ocean with Shri Krishna's partially cremated body. Subhadra too, followed both
the brothers. At the same time, on the eastern shore of India, King Indradyumna
of Jagannath Puri had a dream that the Lord's body would float up to the shores
of Puri. He should build a huge Temple in the city and make the wooden idols
(murtis) of Shri Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra. The bones (asthi) of Lord
Krishna's body should be placed in the hollow in the back of the murti. The
dream came true. He found the splinters of bone (asthi) and took them. But the
question was who would carve the murtis. It is said that the architect of the
gods, Vishwakarma arrived as an old carpenter. He said that while carving the
murtis nobody should disturb him and if anybody did, he would stop work and
leave. A few months passed by. One day, being impatient, Indradyumna opened the
door of Vishwakarma's room, who vanished instantly as he had said. Despite the
incomplete murtis, the king consecrated them, placing the holy cinders of Lord
Krishna in the hollow of the murti and installed them in the Temple. Every year
a grand procession is carried out with the murtis of Lord Krishna, Balaram and
Subhadra in three gigantic floats. The floats are pulled by devotees from
Janakpur to the mandir in Jagannath Puri. The murtis are changed every twelve
years, the new ones being incomplete too.The Jagannath Mandir in Jagannath Puri
is one of the four most sacred mandirs in the four directions of the Indian sub
- continent. The other three are: Rameshwar in South, Dwarka in West and
Badrinath in the Himalayas. Probably the mandir in Jagannath Puri is the only
mandir in the world housing murtis of three deities who are siblings - Lord
Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra.
The statues of Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra are found in Jagannathpuri in
Orissa which is worshipped with great fervour during Rathyatra. The Jagannath
Mandir in Jagannath Puri is one of the four most sacred mandirs in the four
directions of the Indian sub - continent. The other three are Rameshwar in
South, Dwarka in West and Badrinath in the Himalayas. Probably theTemple in
Jagannath Puri is the only Temple in the world housing idols (murtis) of three
deities who are siblings - Lord Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra.
PUBLIC SCIENCE:
A system was used in the pre monsoon festival of Ashadhi-beej to check the
moisture in the atmosphere to help predict which crop would do best in the
monsoon planting season so as to get the best autumn crop.Depending on decide on
the types of crops that would do best for spring harvest. also good muharat on
the day.

Astronomy:
Sun in MITHUN in the rashi of name KRISHNA. both are near tropic of Cancer (KARK
WRUT) the tilting angle of the EARTH, EARTH changes the angle of tilt from 22.5
to 24 degree , May be the tilt of the Earth was about +23° 19' 3.3' at that time
before +5000 years ago and so at that time that was the (KARK WRUT) and so that
may be the time of SUMMER solstice. which is +23° 27' now a days is on 21 June.








LINED UP PLANETS IN THE SKY(Saturn, Mars, Moon, and the VENUS) of WEST on
ASHADHI BEEJ in KUTCH

Information about Moon for 04 Jul 2008 06:10:10(Julian day number
2454651.52789)Local InformationApparent topocentric coordinates for the epoch of
date:Right ascension: 7h 54m 34.05s Declination: +22° 35' 10.3'Constellation:
GeminiAltitude: -13° 7' 4'Azimuth: 58° 1' 55'Rise: 7h 14m 2sTransit: 14h 11m
40sSet: 21h 3m 40sStar atlas chart numbers:Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas, Chart
C-33Millennium Star Atlas, Charts 151-152 (Vol I)Sky Atlas 2000.0, Chart
5Uranometria 2000 Chart 140, Vol 1Geocentric InformationApparent geocentric
coordinates for the epoch of date:Right ascension: 7h 50m 58.255s Declination:
+23° 6' 23.55'True distance: 363472.4 KmHorizontal parallax: 3619.68'Physical
InformationMagnitude: -5.3Phase: 0.013Phase angle: 166.9°Elongation:
13.1°Diameter: 1965.53'Light time: 0h 0m 1.2sMass: 7.3483e+022 kg (0.0123 x
Earth)Mean equatorial radius: 1734.4 km (0.2719 x Earth)Maximum angular
diameter: 1864.2'Minimum geocentric distance: 0.00257 AUGeometric flattening:
0Sidereal rotation period: 27d 7h 43m 11s Mean density: 3.34 g/cm^3Geometric
albedo: 0.12

Events for Friday 04 Jul 200804:44 Mercury rises06:10 Sun rises06:41 Venus
rises06:42 Jupiter sets07:14 Moon rises09:53 Mars rises10:08 Saturn rises18:03
Mercury sets19:41 Sun sets19:56 Jupiter rises20:11 Venus sets21:04 Moon
sets22:39 Mars sets22:50 Saturn sets









Moon Cresent : This is how it will LOOK like in KUTCH on Ashadhi beej if sky is
clear.
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