Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Chapter Seven
BHAVISHYA PURANA
Bhavishya Purana – Consequential Old Stories – was written
during the Christian Era in Sanskrit. Even though it is claimed
that it is a prophecy by most proponents, it could not have been
written Before Christian era. Pratisarga Parva, Chapters Four to
Seven are of particular interest. It repeats the Old Testament
stories of Fall, Flood, and detailed chronology with the names
indianized with exact number of years each patriarch lived. The
names, the lifetime and chronological order and the insight in the
biblical stories could not have come without a deep study of the
Old Testament book of Genesis. A plain reading of the Purana
side by side with the book of Genesis leaves no doubt that the
Rishi who wrote this was a Scholar in Old Testament.
The book also introduces Jesus as the Son of God (Eshwara
Putra) and as Easaw Maseeh (Jesus the Mesiah).
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Even though serious scholars do not consider Bhavishya Purana as
authentic, in the recent times it appears that the exporters of Hinduism
have projected this as authentic. The word Bhavi means future.
Bhavishyam actually means “consequence of”. The whole history of
mankind here is explained as a consequence of the fall of man and God’s
plans of redemption. This is a text that has grown over a period of 2000
years starting from the 3rd or even the 4th century B.C. The suggested
upper and lower limits of the period are 450 or 500 B.C. to 1850 A.D. In
the course of this growth and evolution, later-day material was added to