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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)[reply]

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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.^[1]

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

References

^ "Experts dig up 950BC as epic war date". Times of India. 1 February 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
^ Kuthiala, Atul Kumar, ResearchGate (Jan 2023), Arundhati-Vasishtha observation and the year of the Mahabharata war{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] "Experts dig up 950BC as epic war date". Times of India. 1 February 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 2021-01-15.

[2] Kuthiala, Atul Kumar, ResearchGate (Jan 2023), Arundhati-Vasishtha observation and the year of the Mahabharata war{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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