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Hindu Histories : The Beginning by Nipun Shukla
When journeying back into the past, from recent times to the ancient,
one would find history gradually transform into legend, and legend
into myth. This is especially true for a country as complicated and
diverse as India. Thus, the ancient histories of its people, the Hindus
(a broad term that includes all the people of the Indus River, the
Sindhu), are also shrouded in myth and legend.
Hindu Histories, a fictional narrative complete with dates, hymns, and
genealogies, is an attempt to throw light on those remote periods of
the past. The basis of the work is in the assumption that Hindu myths
are poetic (hyperbolic) forms of ancient social and political realities.
The work builds on this assumption and moves on two intertwined
paths. The first interprets the said myths and reveals them to be
actual events that transpired in those times. The second explores the
role of Vedic Sages (founders, if you will, of ancient Hinduism) as
influential philosophers and reformers, who in their quest to create a
World-Family, lay, in the book, the foundations of the Vedic Period to
come.
one would find history gradually transform into legend, and legend
into myth. This is especially true for a country as complicated and
diverse as India. Thus, the ancient histories of its people, the Hindus
(a broad term that includes all the people of the Indus River, the
Sindhu), are also shrouded in myth and legend.
Hindu Histories, a fictional narrative complete with dates, hymns, and
genealogies, is an attempt to throw light on those remote periods of
the past. The basis of the work is in the assumption that Hindu myths
are poetic (hyperbolic) forms of ancient social and political realities.
The work builds on this assumption and moves on two intertwined
paths. The first interprets the said myths and reveals them to be
actual events that transpired in those times. The second explores the
role of Vedic Sages (founders, if you will, of ancient Hinduism) as
influential philosophers and reformers, who in their quest to create a
World-Family, lay, in the book, the foundations of the Vedic Period to
come.
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