Ashtapad Maha Tirth 02

SR No.: 009860
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rajnikant Shah, Others
Publisher: USA Jain Center America NY
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 532
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 26 MB

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Chapter 01
Introduction to Research
instantaneously. For a hundred-thousand years, temperatures fell and sheets of ice of more than kilometer thick grew to envelop much of North America, Europe and Asia. The ice age ended nearly as abruptly as it began. Between about 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, the temperature in Greenland rose more than 10°C. The climate of the ice ages is documented in the ice layers of Greenland and Antarctica. The ice-core of these layers has been extracted, and studied in the laboratory. Not only were ice ages colder than today, but the climates were considerably more variable. Compared to the norm of the last million years, our current climate is remarkably warm, stable and benign. The cold temperatures are detrimental for human welfare and warm temperatures are beneficial. From about 1500 to 1800 AD, the climate cooled slightly during a period known as the Little Ice Age. The oscillation between ice ages and interglacial periods is the dominant feature of Earth's climate for the last million years. Earth's climate is controlled by the Sun. In comparison, every other factor is trivial. The coldest part of the Little Ice Age during the latter half of the seventeenth century was marked by the nearly complete absence of sunspots. We, therefore, in the context to climate variation over the Earth in the last few million years to very recent past, may narrow down the birth period of Bhagwan Rushabhdev to be between 12 and 10 thousand years from present, which is in close agreement to one koda-kodi period mentioned in Jain scriptures, however in view of my derivations described in earlier section,
3. Ashtapad Temple/ Palace a) Mount Kailash: Mt. Kailash is amazingly symmetrical striated pyramid at 7000 meters height. At about 36 kilometer to the south of Mt. Kailash lies Lake Mansarovar. Four great rivers of southeast Asia emanate from this lake. They are Sindhu, Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Karnali. Shown in the Figure 10 is the aerial view of Mount Kailash region and possible mountain site of the Ashtapad.
Aerial view of Mt. Kailash Region
TRENCH Mount Kailash
Mount Ashtapad
Fig. 10: Aerial View of Mount Kailash region and possible mountain site of the Ashtapad.
In the area of western Tibet and around Himalayan border land, original indigenous religion (spiritual & cultural tradition) was called Bon Po which is supposed to be approximately 8000
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- New Techniques to discover Ashtapad