[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: On evidence for and against Yugas of Indian chronology

[GR Vishwanath]

So when Anuman clashes with Shruti/Smriti-- did our Acharayas address this
explicitly? Is there a specific quote from Sankara or a Purva Mimamsin tht
directly
addresses this question of how to proceed when there is a conflict ?
Specific links will be appreciated

Vishwanath

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Rajesh ji and Sujal ji
> Thank you for your inputs
> Rajesh ji,
> Its not a question of their system versus our system, rather its about
> having the patience to read through the arguments against the yugas etc.,
> as historical realities and strengthening our dharma. If you notice
> bhAShyakara does advance arguments against the Buddhists on logical grounds
> alone without merely saying 'our shruti invalidates Buddhist ideas'. Just
> saying that shruti is supreme is ineffectual.  Different pramANas like
> shruti (and it's allies) and anumAna may appear to clash,  in which case we
> have to put in sone efforts to either show the fallacies in the anumAna or
> we reinterpret shruti without losing its key points.
>
> Moreover when the dominant consensus  amongst large sections of thinkers
> and scientists is presenting a pUrvapakSha against the itihAsas, atleast a
> few of the Astikas can try and show the problems with these pUrvapakShas.
>
> Another related issue , (on a diffetent note)
> Take the idea of the time period of the yugas. I have not read but been
> told that Sri Yukteswar Giri held the kali yuga to be 600 years and the
> other yugas being multiples thereof in the usual way. Now this scheme was
> endorsed by Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswati ji, a  traditional teacher of
> Vedanta who said on more than one occasion that the current Yuga is Dwapara
> yuga. ( He offered two reasons if I recollect, viz.,  the developments in
> science and another reason being (this is my recollection) that atleast a
> small significant section of people are able to worship as per Hindu
> traditions and peacefully study vedanta etc., without religious persecution
> unlike in the medieval ages. So things are better now than during say
> Aurangzeb's time ) The above view represents a debate or discussion within
> the tradition regarding the itihasa chronology. I wanted to ask if the
> above book of Sri Yukteswar Giri has been read by anyone here.
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
>
> On 09-Nov-2017 7:53 PM, "Rajesh Benjwal" <rbenjwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Namaste,
> >
> > They should think how to defend their fossil dating method as our
> > scripture yuga information invalidate it. They should improve their
> system.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> >> For many traditionalists the chronology of Yugas having the order of
> >> hundreds of thousands of years where there were human beings living on
> >> this
> >> planet earth, is taken for granted.
> >>
> >> But there is a counter argument that the fossil records don't support
> such
> >> as possibility.  I wanted to know the fallacies in this such a fossil
> >> record based argument against the possibility of Yugas. This is no
> doubt a
> >> bit off topic with respect to Advaita Vedanta per se but i am hoping
> some
> >> learned members would know about ideas to defend the concept of Yugas
> >> given
> >> the so-called evidence from fossil records which is claimed to
> invalidate
> >> even the possibility of Yugas.
> >>
> >> thank you
> >> Om
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> >
> > *Rajesh Benjwal*
> >
> >
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