26 Sep '11 01:29>
Originally posted by sumydid"Yuga" is a long amount of time-like 5000 or so years. We are supposed to be in Kali Yuga at the moment.
The Vedic culture existed 50,000 years ago? Civilization sprang up at the Tigris/Euphrates Delta area around 7,000 years ago. So is Vedic culture part of pre-cvilization, i.e. uncivilized? Since there are no known writtten communications before civilization began, how did the Vedic community communicate with one another? Was it a complicated system of ha ...[text shortened]... lation between these seemingly different characters and practices fascinating. Your thoughts?
As for the 50000 figure for theemergence of the vedas, I'm not sold on either of your views and indeed both your views could be held as true for a certain perspective. Both could be wrong.
just my two cents