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Antiquity of Rig Veda
The astronomical evidence proves that the earliest Rig Vedic compositions date from at least the sixth millennium B.C. K.C. Verma points out that Lokmanya Tilak and Hermann Jacobi, ‘‘established that the Vedic period commences in 4500 B.C., and that the bulk of the hymns of the Rig Veda were composed between 3500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. when the vernal equinox was in the Orion (4500-3500 B.C.) and later receded (3500-2500 B.C.) to Rohini; the Krittika period during which the existing Brahmanas and Upanishads were composed extended from 2500-800 B.C. They have been supported on independent grounds by P.C. Sengupta, (in his) Ancient Indian Chronology, 1947.’’ He adds, ‘No one, to the best of my knowledge, has so far been able to refute the arguments advanced by these scholars.’
In the same book Sengupta has also shown that the solar eclipse in the Rig Veda. V 40.5-9 took place on July 26, 3928 BC and the beginnings of the Brahmana literature he traces to 3500 B.C.
Some scholars have tried to brand the astronomical statements given in the Vedic literature as fabrications based on astronomical back calculations. This would mean that the ancient Indians deliberately doctored their hymns to fool future astronomers! The very idea is ludicrous.
baps.org/essays/2009/0801.htm
Now a million dollar question is: How did the Indians manage to forge these observations? Back calculations of such data was not possible till recently when powerful computers and sophisticated software were available.
Were those forgers endowed with super super brains?
Why would they try to forge even? To convince the so called historians of Max Muller type? If so then they must be credited with ability to foresee Mullers 4500 years in the future.
The astronomical evidence proves that the earliest Rig Vedic compositions date from at least the sixth millennium B.C. K.C. Verma points out that Lokmanya Tilak and Hermann Jacobi, ‘‘established that the Vedic period commences in 4500 B.C., and that the bulk of the hymns of the Rig Veda were composed between 3500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. when the vernal equinox was in the Orion (4500-3500 B.C.) and later receded (3500-2500 B.C.) to Rohini; the Krittika period during which the existing Brahmanas and Upanishads were composed extended from 2500-800 B.C. They have been supported on independent grounds by P.C. Sengupta, (in his) Ancient Indian Chronology, 1947.’’ He adds, ‘No one, to the best of my knowledge, has so far been able to refute the arguments advanced by these scholars.’
In the same book Sengupta has also shown that the solar eclipse in the Rig Veda. V 40.5-9 took place on July 26, 3928 BC and the beginnings of the Brahmana literature he traces to 3500 B.C.
Some scholars have tried to brand the astronomical statements given in the Vedic literature as fabrications based on astronomical back calculations. This would mean that the ancient Indians deliberately doctored their hymns to fool future astronomers! The very idea is ludicrous.
baps.org/essays/2009/0801.htm
Now a million dollar question is: How did the Indians manage to forge these observations? Back calculations of such data was not possible till recently when powerful computers and sophisticated software were available.
Were those forgers endowed with super super brains?
Why would they try to forge even? To convince the so called historians of Max Muller type? If so then they must be credited with ability to foresee Mullers 4500 years in the future.