Development of Hinduism

Author(s): M M Ninan
Publisher: M M Ninan

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2. DATES OF VEDAS
Belief in self manifestation of Vedas history.
Thus http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/58_age_of.htm quotes the Bhagwatam, which says,
ऋग्यजुःसामाथर्वाख्यान् वेदान् पूर्वादिभिर्मुखैः ॥
इतिहासपुराणानि पञ्चमं वेदमीश्वरः । सर्वेभ्य एव वक्त्रेभ्यः ससृजे सर्वदर्शनः ॥ (भा. 3/12/37, 39)
"Brahma produced the eternal scriptures, Rigved, Yajurved, Samved, Atharvaved and also the Puranas which are like the fifth Ved."
They then go on thus "He produced them at the very beginning of the creation of the world which was 155.52 trillion years ago. So, now we know that the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas are all eternal Divine knowledges which were given by God to Brahma and then Brahma produced them 155.52 trillion years ago to the Sages of this brahmand who then produced them for the people of this earth planet."
Date of the Vedas: Inquiry not Proper
graurusheva
Is there anything, which was not in the mind of God? Then we cannot really date anything. In that sense I am eternal. Was I not in the mind of God before the creation? When was the computers discovered? Does God know computer language? In so doing the Hindu sages try to avert the question because the answer is so devastating.
According to strict orthodox Hindu interpretation the Vedas are ("not human compositions"). Rig Veda is essentially hymns to nature gods. Are we to assume that God himself wrote those? So those praise for Agni and Vayu and Indra were all done by God? Only some one who has never seen or read the Veda will believe that. They evidently are human reaction to forces of nature. It does not make sense to say that the Psalms of David were written by Yhvh. Incidentally God also wrote this book before the creation of the world. This is also apaurusheya. Yet that is exactly what the import of Rigveda being apaurusheya. They are the human reaction of the early Aryans to the forces of nature as they understood it.
In Hinduism, Apaurusheyatva is also argued as "being unauthored". This implies that the Vedas are not authored by any agency, be it human or divine. Apaurusheya shabda ("unauthored word") is an extension of apaurusheya which refers to the Vedas. Apaurusheyatva is a central concept in the Vedanta and Mimamsa schools of Hindu philosophy. These schools accept the Vedas as svatah
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