Proof in Mahabharatha?

Question

There is a episode in mahabharatha which clearly gives proof that the people in that age also knew the fact that the speed of light is fastest.
Can u tell that episode?

Answer 1

i think Roaringlion has a problem .MAHABHARATA IS NOT A MYTH.tHERE R MANY PROOF.like, the ruins of the bridge built to go to lanka still exists.There are many such evidence.

And yes yudhistira said mano veg(speed of mind) to b the fastest.

Answer 2

In a hymn addressed to the sun, he says that it is ``remembered that the sun traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha.''

This statement could either relate to the speed of the sun or to that of light. The units are well known. For example, the Indian epic ``Mahabharata", conservatively dated to 400 BC - 400 AD, defines 1 nimesha to be equal to 16/75.3 seconds; 1 yojana is about 9 miles.

Substituting in Sayana's statement we get 186,536 miles per second. It cannot be the speed of light. Maybe it refers to the speed of the sun in its supposed orbit around the earth. But that places the orbit of the sun at a distance of over 2,550 million miles. The correct value is only 93 million miles and until the time of Roemer the distance to the sun used to be taken to be less than 4 million miles. This interpretation takes us nowhere.

Answer 3

mahabahabnarata is myth