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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 127<br />

Chapter Seven<br />

BHAVISHYA PURANA<br />

Bhavishya Purana – Consequential Old Stories – was written<br />

during the <strong>Christian</strong> Era in Sanskrit. Even though it is claimed<br />

that it is a prophecy by most proponents, it could not have been<br />

written Before <strong>Christian</strong> era. Pratisarga Parva, Chapters Four to<br />

Seven are of particular interest. It repeats the Old Testament<br />

stories of Fall, Flood, and detailed chronology with the names<br />

indianized with exact number of years each patriarch lived. The<br />

names, the lifetime and chronological order and the insight in the<br />

biblical stories could not have come without a deep study of the<br />

Old Testament book of Genesis. A plain reading of the Purana<br />

side by side with the book of Genesis leaves no doubt that the<br />

Rishi who wrote this was a Scholar in Old Testament.<br />

The book also introduces Jesus as the Son of God (Eshwara<br />

Putra) and as Easaw Maseeh (Jesus the Mesiah).<br />

Even though serious scholars do not consider Bhavishya Purana as<br />

authentic, in the recent times it appears that the exporters of <strong>Hinduism</strong><br />

have projected this as authentic. The word Bhavi means future.<br />

Bhavishyam actually means “consequence of”. The whole history of<br />

mankind here is explained as a consequence of the fall of man and God’s<br />

plans of redemption. This is a text that has grown over a period of 2000<br />

years starting from the 3rd or even the 4th century B.C. The suggested<br />

upper and lower limits of the period are 450 or 500 B.C. to 1850 A.D. In<br />

the course of this growth and evolution, later-day material was added to

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