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7. PURANAS, TEMPLES AND THEIR DATES
"The great epic called the Mahabaharatha (between 300 BC and AD 300) is by far the most important representative of the purana. Of somewhat similar free style are the 18 Puranas of a much later date. The beginnings of the artistic style are seen in the Ramayana (begun 3rd century BC). The finished epic kavya form, however, was not evolved until the time of Kalidasa, about the 5th century AD. This poet and dramatist is the author of the two best-known Sanskrit artistic epics, the Kumarasambhava and the Raghuvamsa." http://www.connect.net/ron/sanskritliterature.html
If the horoscope given to us is correct Krishna was born in the month of Sravana on the 23rd day on the night of full moon in Lagnam Edavam at midnight and if Guru (Mars), Kujan (Mercury), Ravi (Sun) and Sukran (Venus) were at their own home, Budan, Chandran (moon) and Sani (Saturn) were in their highest time, then Krishna was born in AD 600
"Mahabaharatha as given to us could not have been written before A.D fourth Century. Panini, who is the famous grammarian, has mentioned several important personalities of the epics of that period. While the reprints published later have made several errors, variations and exaggerations, the main characters and the imports of the stories remain in tact. There is no doubt that Gita came into existence only during the period of Gupta Empire." K.M.Panicker ( A Survey of Indian History p.67)
All Hindu myths are developed over a long period of times, 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 got 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. It is the same old "Once upon a time there lived.......", bedtime story. That does not mean it has no historical basis. But the puranas themselves cannot be taken on face value as presented. It may be a good symbolic presentation or an allegory, but not history or scripture truth.
The sheer comparison of the Modern Hinduism with the Vedism simply shows that it could not have been connected directly in any way. One thing is evident, modern religion Hinduism is not based on Vedas. It is a totally different religion which took place sometime before the third century AD. Somehow some vested interest conveniently twisted history so that everything was cleverly hidden and some strange explanations to avoid even directl enquiry into origins and dates and who and why were arrogantly obliterated.
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