> > Your assertions do not agree with these ancient > > deity-bhakti teachings... > > zarzari: > Sure, there are some theistic Upanishads. But Hara > wasn't known in the Rig Veda. > History in India begins with the historical Buddha (Shakya the Muni, 563 BC). Before that, there was no writing, so everything before the Ashokan Pillars is considered to be pre-history - the oral tradition.
The language of the Indus Valley Civilization has not been deciphered. So, about all we have in the way of historical evidence is the edifice architecture such as stone inscriptions. The first known instance of writing occurs in India around around the time of the building of Sarnath. So, if there were any deity-bhakti teachings in South Asia they wouod have been mentioned by the Buddha. But in fact, the bhati teachings came much later during the Gupta Age, after the formation of the sects. Apparently there are no indigenous population in the Asian Subcontinent. If the inhabitants came from outside India, where and when did they come to India and why? Most reasonable people accept the timelines and chronologies of both Indian and western scholarship based on the historical evidence, not on any Indian traditions. For example, all the evidence supports the conclusion that the Vedas were composed after the invention of the spoked wheel and the use of the horse as a conveyance - there is no evidence for the use of either before 1700 B.C. in India. According to modern scholarship, based on historical evidence, the Aryan speakers entered into India around 1700 B.C., just as the Indus Civilization was declining. The evidence is linguistic, archaeological, and textual. Historians agree that there is no mention of the Indus Valley Civilization in the Vedas, therefore the Vedas must have been composed after 1700 B.C. While there is no mention of the Indus Valley Civilization, the Rig Veda mentions the use of iron, which was not smelted in India until after 1500 B.C. In contrast, according to Indian tradition, the Aryans were a race of people who spoke an eternal language called Sanskrit over a million years ago on Mt. Meru, before homo sapiens sapiens came out of Africa, before the dawn of civilization, before the invention of the wheel, before writing and the invention of agriculture. Frawley thinks the Aryans came OUT OF INDIA and then invented all the Indo-European languages, up to and including Finnish! Go figure.
