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

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
100 AD at liberal estimate. They must have been written down much
later in actual fact. A more realistic estimate will be around 6 th Centaury
AD.
Thus for instance the vast amalgamation of Puranic tradition
known as the Skandapurana, as far as we can speak of it as a single work
at all, cannot be older than the 16th century, as has been shown in the
Groningen Skandapurana project (see Adriaensen et al 1994). Many
scientific manuals and commentaries were composed during the 17th and
18th centuries, and a 19th century compilation, the Sukraniti, passed for
a long time as a genuine ancient work. And of course, Indian scholars of
traditional learning are all the time producing new Sanskrit literature.
Klaus Karttunen http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/veda.htm
It should be noted here that the names of the gods and the Rishis
with which each Sukta begins were selected long after the collection of
the VEDAS. These were determined in the Index known as the
Anukramanee. Katyayana composed the Anukramanee, which has been
followed in the Rik-Sanhita in adopting the names of the gods and the
rishis. Katyayana came after Yáska and it is therefore evident that the
names were invented many centuries afterwards without having any
historic truth in them. There is nothing in the Suktas themselves, which
can throw any light in elucidating these words. Rajeswar Gupta
http://phoenicia.org/rigveda.html
“The great epic called the Mahabaharatha (between 300 BC and
AD 300) is by far the most important representative of the purana. Of
somewhat similar free style are the 18 Puranas of a much later date. The
beginnings of the artistic style are seen in the Ramayana (begun 3rd
century BC). The finished epic kavya form, however, was not evolved
until the time of Kalidasa, about the 5th century AD. This poet and
dramatist is the author of the two best-known Sanskrit artistic epics, the
Kumarasambhava and the Raghuvamsa”. http://www.connect.net/ron/
sanskritliterature.html
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