Gentoo studies

Hans Henrich Hock hhhock at STAFF.UIUC.EDU
Tue May 25 16:17:23 UTC 1999


Something to ponder:  If the Vedas are apauruSeya, what can they tell us
about pauruSeya history?

abhivaadaye sarvaan

Hans Henrich Hock


> Vidyasankar Sundaresan <vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>
>>>I have yet to come across any "Western" scholar who understands the
>>>notion of
>>>apaurushheyatva ...
>>
>>It is not clear to me that "understanding" (if not accepting) the
>notion of
>>apaurusheyatva will greatly affect the dating of Vedic texts. What is
>a few
>>thousand years here and there in timeless eternity?
>
>
>Exactly what I was wondering too. How does  "apaurusheyatva" help in
>Vedic philology? It is of relevance in understanding only later
>vedAntic thought.
>
>Rama





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