India and Hinsuim is pilloried for its tardiness in maintaing its History.
There are no historical references, no continuity in Indian History nor any official crdible History.
This is the view among most of the Indians, that most of Indian History is a fable.
The west is not far from holding this view.
Is this a Fact?
Let us look at some facts.
1.References of Hindu Epics and The Veda are found in the literature that existed in the corresponding period where/when they came into existence.
I have not used the term written as the Vedas, it is believed were not written and they were transmitted orally over Five Thousand Years.
The Mahabharata refers to the Ramayana.
The Puranas refer to both Ramayana and the Bible, not to speak of the Vedas.
All the literary works in India refer to the Vedas, Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
These are works belonging to the years before Christ.
2.Post Christ Era.
All the works in India refer to all of these at least in the two languages I know, Sanskrit and Tamil, of these Tamil is at least 500 year old.
Tamil works of the Sangam period which are t least 500 years older than the Bible quotes the Hindu Epics and the Vedas.
One of the major tools in determing the existence of a Literay work or event is the cross refernce in the Text, refernce to it by works of the same period
and its refernce to it at least in the earliest succeeding work.
Hinduism fulfills these tests.
What about the Bible?
Bible is taken so seriously that people have fixed even time scale on Christ!
Has the Bible been referred to in the works of the same period or in the period immediately succeeding it?
I do not seem to find it anywhere.
Excepting Bible refrences in the non Cannonical texts of the Bible.
All the cannonical texts are taken as a part of the Bible.
This is like Ramayana proving Ramyana in itself!-by taliking about it in The Ramayana.
And the Hebrew Bible called Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh by Jews, is the earliest refernce to The Bible.
And the Tanakh is dated at 2 Century BC, that is 200 Years before Christ!
4.
“Perhaps the most obvious way that the Bible has inspired writers can be seen in the ways that works of literature actually retell stories found in the Bible. John Milton’s Paradise Lost, for example, retells the biblical fall of man in a long, epic poem, including Satan’s rebellion against God and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden.
Similarly, John Steinbeck‘s East of Eden is roughly structured around the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Another example can be seen in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Following the biblical story of God as the all-powerful savior, Lewis uses the Bible to create parts of his plot, by especially with the return of King Aslan, which parallels Jesus’s return.
Other writers take images in the Bible and expand on them or use them as a setting, such as Dante, who used the Bible’s description of the afterlife to create an epic 3-volume poem that explores Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, titled the Divine Comedy.”
And Dante’s period is 1265–1321 !, full 1200 Years after Christ.
Why there is no reference to The Bible at all in the earlier works between the Bible and the Divine Comedy?
Perhaps there was no literature!
3.The Bible should have been referred to corresponding literature of the same period.
I do not find any reference at all.
Now which History is credible?
Hinduism where Rama’s and Krishna’s dates have been proved,places mentioned have been identified, refernces to them are found every where in Indian Literature,in Japan,Cambodia, Laos,Lanka, Russia, Italy,Americas,and Africa or
The Bible and the western History?
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