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3. TIME LINE
5c BC Budhist Scriptures
In Pali
бc BC Zarathurstra
Avesta In Persian/Vedic/
Avestan
2c AD Sanskrit
Hindu Scriptures
14c BC Moses - Torah in
Hebrew
2c BC
Vedas In Avestan Vedic/Persian
THOMAS
5c BC Jain Scriptures
in Prakrit
Thus we come to the startling discovery that almost all of the Hindu Scriptures are of very recent handiwork of Brahmins after the third century AD.
If we take the best and most probable date claimed for the Vedas we would be about 1500 BC. If Moses wrote the first book of the Bible (Genesis), the date of his writing would be about the same as the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, about 1490BC. In this case we are comparing a rather uncertain date of the Vedas) with a rather certain date (of the Exodus) and we are merely 10 years in separation. Ask the Pundit, (Wyatt Robertson) http://www.karma 2grace.org/webcomponents/faq/index.asp?det=64
The development of writing in the major civilizations led to established religions essentially because the words of the revelations and intuition and religious thoughts were concretized and passed on to generations. It is not that religions were not in existence in other places, but means of communications were limited to oral transmissions which are faulty and unreliable. They were prone to corruption and intentional misuse by the privileged and priestly classes for vested interest.
Writing was known to the world long before Vedas were orally created by the Aryans. All other cultures did document their religious ideas. However Vedas were never written down till the second century BC. Either it was a tribal nomadic song collection of a people who did not know writing or cared about it or they were intentionally not put in concrete form.
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