Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Conversions: Hindus Must Look Within! [Re: AKMehta] #15074 - 04/19/02 04:43 AM Edit Reply Quote

About Buddhism there' a lot to re-evaluate. As for instance in what period did he exactly live. This is a very important issue. And what of the Tipitaka collection was written at what period and what is originally from Buddha himself. The Tipitaka is an endproduct. Just like the Mahabhrata and the Ramayana and the Puranas, etc. there's a certain lap of time from the start of a work done by the original author to the end done by several, not necessarily in the same spirit. According to Puranic chronology Gautama Buddha lived during the Pradyotas of Avanti and the Haryankas Bimbis�ra and Aj�tashatru and the Kosala king, whose name I forgot. There are many dates from 2066 to the fifth century BC given for Buddha. As the Imperial Guptas are dated from 329 BC it pushes the Mauryan back to the 16th-13th century BC. And Buddha was pre-Mauryan, pre-Nanda and pre-Shaishun�ga/K�l�shoka. So Buddha must have lived somewhere around the 20th century BC, according to Prof. Mankad and others. This means that Buddha lived in the end of the mature Sindhu-Sarasvati late-Vedic Sutra period, but not in their area, but in the eastern areas of UP. The western part was dominated by the Kuru-Barhadrathas. In the end of their rule there must have slept decadency in the culture. The drying up of the Sarasvati pushed the Kuru-Barhadratha (mainly Paurava) people towards the south (Maharashtra, mainly Yadava with an upcoming Vaishnava culture) and the Gangetic where the eastern culture (Aikshvakava, Buddha was from the Ikshvaku line, just as Rama was earlier) was more traditional, simpler and more faithful to the ancient Vedic culture of the previous Upanishad period. Of course this gave a meeting of two cultures in the Gangetic, where Buddha was preserving the so-to-say more Upanishad culture and the western immigrants the so-to-say Sutra culture. This period was the transitional period from the early (Kalpa)Sutra or Ved�nga period to the middle (Dharma) Sutra period. I have to go....more to come