Idiot. That’s not colonial source. Tu MBBS pe dhyan de. History wistri tere bass ki nahi hai
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🤭 Academia has already answered these questions. It’s your turn to publish your research to challenge the set narratives regarding Vedic Period.
Also, @AudreyTruschke has no training in fieldwork archaeology. She’s an area studies scholar who engages in textual history.
Critical Historical Questions on the Vedic Period:
1. Vedic Geography: In which regions of ancient India did Vedic culture first emerge, and what archaeological evidence establishes its chronology?
2. Indigenous Populations: Who inhabited these regions before the Vedic period? What were their civilizations, social structures, religions, languages, and writing systems?
3. Vedic Language and Script: Which language and script did the Indo-Aryan-speaking groups bring to India? Did they possess a writing system, or was Vedic Sanskrit initially an oral tradition?
4. Origins of the Varna System: Did these groups arrive with the fourfold Varna system (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra), or did this hierarchy develop in India through interactions with indigenous populations?
5. Brahminical Authority: Did Brahmins arrive as an established hereditary priestly class, or did Brahminical priesthood and social authority develop gradually within India?
6. Indigenous Cultural Acceptance: Why and how would pre-existing Indian populations adopt Vedic language, religion, and social customs? Was this a voluntary, gradual, or politically influenced process?
7. Non-Vedic India: While Vedic culture developed in northern western India, which civilizations, languages, scripts, and religious traditions existed across the rest of the subcontinent?
8. Origins of Pali and Prakrit: When, where, and how did Pali and Prakrit develop? Were they products of indigenous linguistic traditions, Indo-Aryan linguistic evolution, or interaction between different communities?
9. Languages of Common People: How did Pali and Prakrit become widely used languages? Did their spread require Brahmanical approval, or did they develop independently through ordinary communities and non-Vedic religious movements?
10. Historical Evidence: What are the earliest securely dated archaeological, inscriptional, and manuscript records of Vedic Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit, and what do they actually establish?
11. Approximately how many Indo-Aryan-speaking (Vedic) people migrated into northwestern India, and what archaeological, genetic, or historical evidence supports these estimates?
12. Did these incoming groups engage in conflicts, wars, or struggles for political and social dominance with the pre-existing indigenous populations?
Or did the indigenous inhabitants peacefully accept the newcomers’ religious authority and fourfold Varna system, voluntarily allowing themselves to be classified as socially inferior?
Kindly look at these questions critically.
As Indian Philosopher Ramkrishna Puligandla reckoned:
A Brief History of Philosophy:
• 375 BC: Plato is wrong
• 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong
• 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong
• 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong
• 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong
• 413 AD: Augustine is wrong
• 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong
• 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong
• 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong
• 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong
• 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong
• 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong
• 1739 AD: Hume is wrong
• 1781 AD: Kant is wrong
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
One thing is clear. Money matters. Ideology doesn’t.
Humans life is short to fight for religious wars, caste supremacy, atheism, communism, etc.
Everything is bullshit. Being rich & healthy are only keys to a good lyf
Vegetarianism in Hinduism is not a practice of “some modern Hindus”. While it’s absolutely true that its counterpart— Vedic religion— was based on animal sacrifice, the practice of vegetarianism is not new, in all sects.
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Swastikas, sexuality in Hinduism, caste…. I teach some eyebrow-raising subjects. Do people get upset? Of course, and that’s okay.
Read for more on how to normalize offense in the classroom as an ordinary emotional reaction, not an academic show-stopper.
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Vaishnavism as a sect had been preaching vegetarianism after its prominence in the late millennium
CE—a total shift in paradigm from Vedic philosophy.
However, the Shaka sect, even today, continues to be non-vegetarian. Shaivism is in the middle ground.
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@AudreyTruschke must understand that the politico-cultural beliefs of Hindus of the cow belt area don’t represent the beliefs of Hinduism in totality.
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Idiot @MisraNityanand
KP Jayaswal (pic 1) & Richard Salomon (pic 2) both agree/doubts to the usage of Prakrit lexicon, “Bhagavabhyam” instead of Sanskrit, “Bhagavadbhyam”.
Also, the donor’s name is registered as Prakrit “Sarvatata”, instead of Sanskrit, “Sarvatrata”.
Idiot @grok Sungas were Brahmins, no doubt. But Satvahanas were Tribes called ‘Andras’ in Puranas, later adopted Vedic Brahmin status for legitimacy.
The Nanaghat inscription of Queen Naganika records the early Satavahanas performing multiple Vedic sacrifices like Ashvamedha and Rajasuya, with large dakshinas to Brahmins and invocations to Vedic deities. This shows clear Vedic patronage and ritual practice. The explicit eka-bamhana claim appears later in the Nashik prasasti of Gautamiputra. Puranas still describe the founder as vrsala, so scholarly debate on original varna continues.
