There have been numerous debates and “researches” on the age of Vedas, made both in our country and across the world. It is impossible to determine the exact age of the Vedas. However, we see that many scholars all over the world have assigned various age estimates. While linguistic experts put the Vedic period as 4,000 years old and the experts in Astronomy by and large concur, archeologists say it could be 5,000 years old. Some German scholars and archeologists including Prof. Maeterlinck say that the Vedic period could be at least a few lakh years old. In his well-known book, Satyartha Prakasam, Maharishi Dayananda asserts that if we consider that 6 manvantaras and 28 chaturyugas have passed by so far, the Vedas should have been in existence for at least 196,08,53,000 years! We can only say that all findings are inconsistent and are at best educated guesses. Many Western scholars have done their research on the Vedic period, but unlike other religious scriptures the Vedas themselves defy precise declaration of their age. No scholarly research can fix the period because the Vedas are beyond the most sophisticated methods of modern-day sciences. Vedas are the very breath of Sarveswara. They have no origin that can be defined by man-made coordinates they are omnipresent. The Vedas are divine.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:31:11 +0000
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