The present edition for Kali Yuga was compiled by Krishnadwaipayana, an Avatar of Vishnu.
He was black, therefore he is called Krishnadwaipayana, Krishna means Black
I am posting a separate blog on different Vyasa of different Kalpas.
Vyasa may be a Peetha Name, a Seat of learning.
The Purans follow the Grammar for Puranas.
They are,
1.Description of the Cosmos.
2.Dissolution of the Universe and regeneration.
3.Various Aeons.
4.Solar and Lunar Dynasty details.
5.Other Dynasties.
The Purans are classified into three.
1.Rajasika, those that describe the Creation in full and Praise Lord Brahma
Brahmanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta,Markandeya,Bhavishya,Vamana,and Brahma Purana belong to this category.
2.Sathvika Puranas, those that Praise Lord Vishnu, Vishnu Puran and the like.
3.Tamasa Puran , those that Praise Lord Shiva and deal more about the Karmas.
There is also another explanation for the classification.
The Puranas are frequently classified according to the Trimurti (Trinity or the three aspects of the divine).[2] The Padma Purana classifies them in accordance with the three gunas or qualities as Sattva (Truth and Purity), Rajas (Dimness and Passion) and Tamas (Darkness and Ignorance).
I have been reading the Eighteen Puranas in detail for the past couple of days.
La tristesse de Sîtâ (Preah Khan, Angkor) (Photo credit: dalbera)
Though I knew there are some differences between the Puranas, I never did realize that there could be something fundamentally contradictory between their narrative details of the Ithihasa, especially the Ramayana!
Though many of us are aware that there are various versions of The Ramayana,we assume that would be very minor,
For instance, some Ramayans state that Sita was not physically abducted directly by Ravana,”
a)The ground on which she stood was lifted by Ravana and he took of.
b)Ravana lifted Sita by her hair.
c)Sita was lifted by Ravana holding her by her hips.
But Valimiki states that Sita was abducted.
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“In Aaraya kandam, Sarkam 49, page 151,
Sri C.R. Srinivasa Iyengar translates that
Ravana lifts Sita by his right hand by touching her thighs.
It shows Sita’s willingness
The point is that Ravana’s head will burst and his body will be burnt
if he touches a unwilling woman
It was a curse on Ravana”(http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110323111752AAa7ajG)
But leaving these points apart, there has been a aview that Ravana did not abuct the Real Sita at all!
But I found a refernce to this in The Koorma Puarana.
It states that Sita knew it was Ravana who had come in the form of a Sanyasi and hence she ,with the blessings of Agni,had a Maya Sita created and it was this Sita Ravana abducted and when when the Maya Sita enetred into the Fire after the killing of Ravana by Lord Rama, the Real Sita emerged and the Maya Sita dispeeared in the fire.
This is explained while extolling the Virtuous that those who are vituous will come to no harm.
The same is stated in The Brahma Vaivastha Purana.
Though the Puranas are old and are also authentic I still belive the Valimki version because the additional details provided in The Ramayana by Valmiki on Lord Ram‘s Birth,Death, His
Date of Birth are found to be true9Please read my posts on these).
Probably these are interpolations in the Puranas to insist on the Glories of Virtues.
There is a news item stating that the Bhavishya Purna predicted the onslaught of the Floods in Uttarakhand and the near destruction of Kedarnath Temple(the Temple ,remains more or less in tact though).
This follows a set pattern.
An event occus.
People come up and say that this has been predicted in the Kalki Purana, Bhavishya(means Future) Purana,Vishnu Purana and the like.
The detractors say that if the references are there, people should have made it Public before the event and not after it had taken place,
Seems to be valid argument.
The problem is who would believe if such things were informed in advance..
Take the case of Pushpaka Vimana, a sort of Flying Chariot, used by Ravana to abduct Sita.
Or the assertion in the Kalki Purana that children of around 9 to 10 years would conceive.
That men would live from the earnings of a woman.
Men would become closer to their wife’s parents and distance themselves away from their parents.
Merit would not be the criterion in the Society but Money.
Power would belong to the Rich.
Women would lust after men openly.
Men would look at even their daughter with lecherous intent.
Teachers would elope with students.
Men would marry older women.
Children would not be born out of Intercourse.
Children would not be conceived and nurtured in the womb.
Children would be born in a Vessel.
Lamps would burn upside down.
Unseasonable floods, and change of Seasons would occur.
That the Dog Star days are accurately predicted when the Summer heat is at its fiercest.(Dog Star is Sirius).
That there are only Nine planets,Pluto and Neptune are Chaya Grahas,, not among the Planets.
Now Scientists say that Neptune/Plato can not really be called planets,after redefining what a Planet is.
There is a Mysterious energy which one can not perceive and it would drive the Universe.
That the Universe has no limitations, it expands and we can perceive what we can for we are limited.
There are particles that travel faster than Light.
Man will attempt to find the Ultimate Matter, would fail , find another fundamental Unit((CERN says exactly this on God Particle)
Very little will be revealed or known about the Gravitational Force and we will never comprehend it in full, which is the case even now.
Discoveries made earlier my Man will be reversed., theories will change.
1. Venus and Rain: Tamil literature and Sanskrit literature associate Venus with the rains. Astronomers and meteorologists will discover that Venus has a link with the rains in future. If Venus goes towards south, the world will have a drought (going south is an astrological jargon to denote appearing towards south). The Vedas and Tamil literature talk about twelve year long droughts. So the scientists will find out that the position of Venus has an impact on world’s weather.
We know that the sun has a big role in the growth of plants. We read plants make food by photosynthesis using sun light. But Sanskrit literature is very clear and loud in saying moon’s rays give energy to the plants. So biologists will find out soon the link between the moon and the plants. But Hindus never denied Sun’s role.
Sanskrit Navagraha Stotras (hymns on nine heavenly bodies) gives the relationship between the planets. Hindus have already found out that Jupiter is the largest and heaviest planet and named it GURU appropriately. Guru means leader, teacher and heavy in Sanskrit. Mars is called Red planet by Tamil and Sanskrit poets. Mars is already confirmed red by scientists. Mars is called Bhumi Puthra/ son of earth. Scientists also believe Mars may have water and life.
Saturn is called a black planet by Sangam Tamil poets and Sanskrit poets (Maim meen in Tamil and Neela in Sanskrit). Saturn will be confirmed black by scientists in future. It is also called chaya puthra (son of shadow as well as son of sun). Hindus said that Saturn has a son called Manthi. It corresponds to the ring (Mantle) around it.
Time is Cyclic and Not Linear.
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In recent years physicists have had to address the interplay of consciousness and the physical world. In Quantum Physics much has been made over Bell’s Theorem. The implications of this theorem and the experimental findings that flow from it are staggering. They force us to consider that the entire notion of a purely objective world is in conflict not only with the theory of quantum mechanics, but with the facts drawn from actual experiments. These findings point insistently to a profound interaction between conscious mental activity and the physical world itself.
The Rishi’s vision
The Rishi’s vision of a world in which man participates in a seamless existence, indivisibly united with the universe around him, resonates through a discovery called “BELL’S THEOREM”. This discovery, first proposed in 1964 by the physicist John S. Bell was first confirmed by experiment in 1972 by Professor John Clauser at Berkley. It is an almost unbelievable result – unbelievable because the logical mind has great difficulty in comprehending how it can be true. Its impact on the physics community has been enormous. Professor Henry Stapp, a physicist at Berkley and an authority on the implications of Bell’s Theorem, …
More information In Sankhya and Vaisheshika Systems.
When predictions are made at a time when they look far-fetched , they are dismissed as Myths.
When it is said after the incident, it is ridiculed saying that it could have been said earlier.
I have quoted some predictions that has come true and some yet to be proved.
Please read the Puranas to find what is said.
The Puransa are vast and these subjects are not dealt with in a separate chapters, except in some case; they are interspersed throughout the Puranas and the Atharva Veda.
To find more on the Occult, one may refer the Atharva Veda and the Book the Shakti and Shakta by Sir John Woodroffe.
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