[Advaita-l] Re: [advaitin] Re: Origin of vedas

[vishwanthan Krishnamoorthy]

I stand corrected, I re-read the book Exalting
Elucidations  (pg 189)and the reference was to Vedas
and not Puranas sorry for the confusion

thanks
Vishwam

--- Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
<rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mahasannidhanam has never said puraaNas are fiction
> as far as I know.
> They are actual events, unless there is some proper
> justification for
> thinking that it's not. I am not sure if you have 
> followed the
> discussion carefully. The original question by
> Bhaskar was on names of
> realized persons in the upanishad and I pointed out
> that these are not
> held to have any historical basis/reality. The
> puraaNas and itihaasas
> refereed to in the ***upaniShad*** are NOT the usual
> purANas. They are
> the stories and events related in the veda itself
> and are NOT
> historical (as per Shankara). I doubt if the Kanchi
> Shankaracharya
> would have disagreed with that (given that Shankara
> has been explicit
> in his bhAShya). Hope that helps.
> 
> Rama
> 
> On 7/25/06, vishwanthan Krishnamoorthy
> <krishvishy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I also have read Mahasannidhaanam's views on
> puranas.
> > However as per Mahaperiyavaal puranas are based on
> > historical events His justifications are at:
> >
> http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part14/chap2.htm
> >
> > I hold both as embodiments of sainthood
> >
> 
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