Can the Puranas calculate the age of the universe to within 0.1% of NASA’s best measurements? A data scientist and Puranic researcher presents extraordinary evidence that the Bhagavata Purana does exactly that — and much more.
Drawing on Srimad Bhagavata Purana, the speaker walks through a systematic comparison of Puranic cosmological timekeeping — Yugas, Kalpas, Manvantaras, and Brahma’s lifespan — against the findings of modern astrophysics, paleontology, and cosmology. The correlations are precise: the Puranic age of the solar system (4.563 billion years) differs from the scientific consensus (4.567 billion years) by less than 0.1%; the Puranic description of Earth’s greatest Pralaya aligns exactly with the end-Permian mass extinction of 252 million years ago; and the Puranic age of the universe (13.819 billion years) matches NASA’s cosmic microwave background measurement (13.801 billion years) to decimal precision.
The talk also challenges the colonial delegitimization of Vedic texts through James Mill’s 1835 education policy, which the speaker argues systematically eroded Indian confidence in scriptures that were — as modern science is now confirming — encoded with remarkable empirical accuracy.

About The Speaker:
Siddhartha Chabra is a US-trained data scientist who later turned to Puranic research after accepting discipleship in the lineage of Srila Prabhupada. His work focuses on exploring the concurrence between Puranic knowledge and modern scientific discoveries. Based on his research into the Puranas, he has authored a book examining the parallels between Puranic history and contemporary findings in physics.