{"id":9984,"date":"2024-01-29T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2024-01-29T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:59:10","slug":"9984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=9984","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Seers – Sapta Rishies – Ursa Major, Great Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
        The Seven Rishies   ( Ursa Major )\n \n\nIt is the custom in all Hindu marriages, to show the stars Vasishta and Arundhati to the married couple. Vasishta and Arundhati, both mythological figures, are actually stars in the heavens ! Their harmony and devotion to each other was worthy of emulation and admiration. This tradition  is now becoming extinct and here we  will describe the Seven Rishies. \n\nThis pair is in the constellation of the Big Dipper or Ursa Major. Ursa in Latin means Bear . This constellation is known as Sapta Rishi Mandala. There is also another constellation called Ursa Minor. \n\nIn his Brihat Samhita, Varaha Mihira ( 550 BCE ),  gives clear defintions about them.  His postulates are as follows :\n\nIn the Sky North, we have the Saptha Rishies revolving around Dhruva ( Polaris ) like a necklace, according to Garga.\n\nFrom East to West, the Seven Rishies, Atri, Angiras, Marichi, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu and Vasishta stay. Chaste Arundhati accompanies Vasishta.\n\nAt the time of death, however, one will not be able to see both Mizar and Alcor, that is Vasishta and Arundhati.\n\nUrsa Major Cycle, Sapta Rishi Yuga\n\nProfessor Drayson wrote in \" Asiatic Researches \"\n\nThe Hindus thought proper to connect their Mythology with an astronomical period of a strange nature. It is that of the Seven Rishies, moving along the Zodiac in a retrograde motion in 2700 years.\n\nThey stay in a constellation for 100 years. Hence an Ursa Major Cycle = 27*100 = 2700 years.\n\nThey were in Regulus, Makha, at the start of the Maha Bharata War !\n\nThe first Astronomical Calendar was erected by the Vedic Emperor, Vaivashvata Manu in circa 8736 BCE !\n\nTheir Wives are the Pleiades or Karthika. Anasuya ( Alcyone ) is the main star, along with Arundati ( Alcor ) and five more stars !\n\nWheeler Wilcox wrote \" India - the Land of the Vedas, the remarkable work contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airplane, all were known to the Seers who founded the Vedas ! \"\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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