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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: Decoding India's epic timeline: Mahabharata through science | Nilesh Oak- Author
Description: ⚔️Did the Mahabharata actually
happen – Nilesh Oak on Evidence, Astronomy & India’s Ancient Timeline 🌌📜
For over a century, scholars have debated when the Mahabharata actually
happened — with hundreds of conflicting dates and theories.
In this episode, researcher Nilesh Nilkanth Oak joins Roshan Cariappa to break down his evidence-based method for dating India’s greatest epic using astronomy, geology, logic, and textual analysis.
Oak explains why most previous attempts fall apart, how ancient sky
observations narrow the timeline, and why understanding “time, place, and context” is essential to interp...