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| | The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - News |
 | | Closer to home in Pune, Vedic scholar S.N. Bhavsar has been pleading for wider, multi-disciplinary scientific investigation into chapter 32 of the Brihat Samahita, which correlates earthquakes with unusual cloud formations, underground and undersea activity, abnormal behaviour of animals and cosmic and planetary influences. |
 | | Depending on the manner in which this vapour escapes to the surface and rises through the atmosphere, it forms a cloud, taking peculiar shapes of “a snake, wave, feather or a lantern”. |
 | | Bhavsar who has done doctoral work on the Vedas and worked at the Deccan College, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and University of Pune's department of space sciences, emphasised that natural phenomena are “apparently discrete but otherwise continuous” and require a non-linear, multi-modal and multivariate approach for their understanding. |
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