Talk:Letter written on 18 Oct 1962
Evidence to be considered for the date of the letter must primarily be derived from its image in the letter, so here is that portion, blown up, click for max magnification. A few things:
First, there is no ambiguity about the last four digits, 10 - 62. The second digit is also unambiguous, given an awareness of how Osho writes his eights, with an extra stroke on top making them sometimes look like twos, but here, clearly, it is an eight. Thus the only problem is the first digit.
In calendar logic, it can only be a 0, 1 or 2. What it looks like is that it once was one of those three and then corrected to one of the others. Now, Osho does not use zeros as first digits in writing dates, so we can eliminate the possibility of a zero changed to something else. And looking more deeply into the first digit, it seems that a one is involved, as a part of the form looks very much like the one in "10". And no part looks like the two in "62". One cannot contrive a two out of that mess. All this leaves a one scratched out with random strokes, a one cancelled, as the only possibility, and thus "8" is the intended date. According to moi. -- doofus-9 09:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
It is clearly that here is 18 Oct. I am going to correct the date. Ok?--DhyanAntar 04:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
It is not clear at all that the first digit is unambiguously a 1. You can do what you like, but we disagree about what the first digit is intended to be, so the situation cannot be called clear.. It is clear that there is or was a 1 at some point, and to me it looks like a 1 before a correction. -- doofus-9 05:08, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Ok. Perhaps i went in wrong direction. Thanks for my returning from there :-) --DhyanAntar 14:08, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Now resolved by input from Dilip in favour of 18 Oct. Quite aside from the appearance of the "1" above -- whether crossed-out or just messy -- Dilip wrote:
- Also in Letter written on 29 Sep 1962 Osho informs of his plan to visit Chanda from 6 to 13 Oct. On 13th he would travel back from Chanda to Vardha and proceed to Digras – stay there on 14th and - return to Jabalpur on 15th. So – it’s correct to say that Osho is at Chanda itself with Ma on 8th. The date of this letter needs correction to 18th, which matches with the manuscript of this letter. In PS of this letter too, Osho writes: ‘उस रात्रि सकुशल आगया था। (that night, reached back – all well)’ - i.e. on 15th (as planned).
-- doofus-9 00:03, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
