Talk:Kurukshetra War

Date of Painted Grayware
"According to Asko Parpola, the war may have taken place at the end of the painted grayware period, 75-350 B.C." Painted Grayware is dated to 1200-600 on its own page. I'm not sure what the source says.

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War started
The war started on October 13, 3139 BC 2600:4041:78EE:AB00:F5B4:D38E:3B4F:C5D1 (talk) 19:53, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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Popular tradition and archaeoastronomy
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Popular tradition holds that the war marks the transition to Kali Yuga and dates it to 3102 BCE. A number of other proposals have been put forward:


 * Kesheo Lakshman Daftari, one of the members of the Calendar Reform Committee which prepared the Indian national calendar, holds that the war took place in 1197 BCE.
 * V. S. Dubey claims that the war happened near 950 BCE.


 * Atul Kumar Kuthiala holds that the war happened around c. 4600 BCE. A081950 (talk) 20:17, 2 April 2024 (UTC)