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CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN KRISHNA. [Source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology] 'Black.' This name occurs in the Rigveda, but without any relation to the great deity of later times. The earliest mention of Krishna, the son of Devaki, is in the Chandogya Upanishad, where he appears as a scholar. There was a Rishi of the name who was a son of Viswaka. There was also a great Asura so named, who with 10,000 followers committed fearful devastation, until he was defeated and skinned by Indra. In another Vedic hymn, 50,000 Krishnas are said to have been slain, and it is added in another that his pregnant wives were slain with him that he might leave no posterity. This is supposed to have reference to the Rakshasas or to the dark-colored aborigines of India. Early Indian epigraphy From Wikipedia Upanishads are written in Sanskrit. The earliest occurrence of Sanskrit is in AD 150. As such if they were in existence orally it was certainly not in the form we have it today in the language as it has today. Writing in Sanskrit (Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit, EHS) appears only later, in the early centuries AD. (This is very different from the earliest attestation of Sanskrit. The earliest attested Vedic Sanskrit (which is identical in all respects with Persian Avesta) from the Rig Veda is dated to c. 1700-1400 BCE; however, this was preserved through oral transmission only, and only written down much later.) The earliest attestation of an Indo-Aryan language (Vedic Sanskrit of the Rig Veda) is dated some 1,200+ years 20
CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN before the appearance of any written Indo-Aryan. Nearly 2,000 years passed before the Rig Veda itself was written down! Hindu scripture manuscript on palm-leaf, in an early Sanskrit script, 11th century. Though Sanskrit is claimed to be the oldest language in the universe, the Sanskrit as we know today is of very recent origin. “The first epigraphic evidence of Sanskrit is seen in 150 AD and this inscription is in the Brahmi script.” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1982). From the fifth century A.D. classical Sanskrit is seen to be the dominant language in the inscriptions. Earlier documents used Pali and Prakrit. Asoka who took every care to make his messages intelligible to the common man used all existing scripts and languages. These 3 rd Century inscriptions do not include Sanskrit. It included Prakrit, Greek and Aramaic. But no Sanskrit is found because it was not in existence at that time. Sanskrit was developed out of Prakrit and other existing languages during the interval of 100 AD to 150 AD “The first evidence of classical Sanskrit is found as an inscription dating around A.D.150 in the Brahmi script. It records the repair of a dam originally built by Chandragupta Maurya, and also contains a panegyric in verse, which can be regarded as the first literary composition in classical Sanskrit. It is at Girnar in Kathiawar and was inscribed by Rudradamana, the Saka Satrap of Ujjayini, on the same rock on which the Fourteen Rock Edicts of Asoka were also found. 21
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