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have been regarded asa historical person. Since, howevr, she is totally unknown to all the earlier Purānas dealing with the life of Krsna, her mythialorigi is proved beyond the shadow of doubt. It isthe corrupt priesthood that has played havoc with the lifeof a truly great man
(6) The true date of the Bhārata war, and so of the coronation of Yudhisthira which immediately followed it, could not have been much earlier than 1100 BC. The year 3102 BC must have originally been thedateo some other event, probably of thearrival of Aryans in India.
(7) The great age Vyāsa was not responsible for the numerous absurd unedifying and sectarian myths, legnds and doctrines that found their way into the present Purānas and the Mahābhārata during the decadent period of INdian history. He wa the author of only one Purana Samhitā, and of one epic poem of modrate size called Jaya.
(8) The chain of evidence recorded in so many anient kiworks provs beyond doubt that Vālmīki was born in the illustrious family of Bhrgu nd was a tender-hearted and gifted man. After the lapse of long centuries inc his birth he became a victim of myth-makers who wanted to give afaniful explanation of hi name nd toshow that he was transformed from villain into a sage bymuttering the name of Rāma.
Thus, Dr. Bhargava, an eminent Indologist and the author of a thesis entitled 'Imdia in the Vedic Age, has logically demolished some of the wiely prevalent Purāņic myths, focussing on eight celebrated great men ofremote historical past. Consequently, he has done agreat service to the nation by resuurecting the true greatness of these veneral historial geniuses. N.M.K.
Dolcini, Donatella and Freschi Fausto: Tessitori and Rajasthan, (proceedings of the Inernational Conferene Bikaner, 21-23 February 1996), edited, in Biblootheca Indica, Testi studi 1; Foreward by Gianfranco Fiaccadori; Introduction by Carlo Della Casa, Societa Indologica, Luigi Pio Tessitori. Udine. pp.224, price not mentioned.
The Bibliotheca indica series was started in 1996 with the publication of Luigi Pio Tessitori's Opere giovanili (Early Works). These formedthe first volume of his Opera omnia: a collection of translations from Indian texts - poetry and narrative - made before 10914 when he left for India on the eve of the First
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