Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 85 All Hindu myths were developed over a long period, where each myth was built over some older historical fact or person. This is often due to confusion of names and times. Most of them were local stories, which were incorporated, in the bigger picture. So when a purana was presented in a codified form it was normally done in a third person method where this person sees the act being carried out in some distant places at distant time. This was indeed the normal style of story telling of the period. In the present day Katha Kala Shepam and Thullal, this is clearly visible. As the story is woven, the imagination of the storyteller takes control and describes these in vivid details and normal human life situations. Thus, even the Gods are presented with human qualities and falls into acts of immorality, jealousy and fight. We thus have imaginary weapons and methods of warfare. Because art forms of this type were presented through the temple, these took on the form of “scripture”. These characters are not limited to any space or time, and appear all over India at all times irrespective of their time of life. This is natural as each village poet and narrator added his own local touch. Thus for example: Siva fell in love with the Vishnu who acted as a beautiful woman to steal the Amrit from the Asuras and (a historically past myth of the ages ago) and begat Ayyapan in the
<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 86 recent past in the forests of Kerala. Ayyappan’s closest friend was a Muslim. This was indeed a difficult chronological problem and to save the situation some artificial interpretations has to be invoked. How this is done, I am not sure. It requires quite an ingenuity to make coherent sense among the multitudes of mythical webs simply because it evolves out of imagination and without regard to logic. But then the aim of these kathas were not logic, but didactic and moral and most often simply the enamor of the story itself. In addition, they were to be made interesting and intriguing. It is thus a series of images over a long period of cultural development over all villages in India. They represent the ethos of India. To attach any historical import into it will be simply ridiculous. References: Languages and Scripts of India http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html Edicts of King Asoka http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html Sharada Script : Origin and Development - B. K. Kaul Deambi http://www.koausa.org/Languages/Sharda.html The basic Brahmi script : 5th century BCE to 4th century CE http://www215.pair.com/sacoins/public_html/languages.htm http://www.ancientscripts.com/brahmi.html The Brahmi Script http://www.ciil.org/programmes/lipika/brahmi.html The Kharosthi Script http://www215.pair.com/sacoins/images/scripts/master_script.gif
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