Anvaya Reward Points : 15200 Member Since : Saturday, January 12, 2008
are the puranas contemporary or are these just the myths and legends without any contemporaneity. Lets share our views here..
Posted On : 3/30/2009 4:59:32 AM
Abhi Tripathi [Guru] Reward Points : 74900 Member Since : Monday, January 07, 2008
i feel that Indian Puranas are contemporary The Indian Puranas are a group of imperative Hindu, Jain or Buddhist religious texts that originated since ancient times. The texts comprises of narrative history of the Universe and is a detailed account of the creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy, and geography. Several Puranic Texts were developed during that time and recounted about the Hindu deities with religious and philosophical concepts. These texts were developed in the form of stories related by one person to another. if religion is contemporary then ofcourse puranic texts are also contemporary
Posted On : 3/31/2009 3:59:59 AM
Priyangana Laha Reward Points : 18600 Member Since : Saturday, March 14, 2009
I think the Puranas are truly very much contemporary and belong to the present age. Such comprehensive texts, comprising uncountable number of legends, lore, myths or the likes, can never be outdated or go out of preference. Believed to have been penned by sage Vyasa - the writer of the epic Mahabharata, the Puranas, however they might be scripted in the story-format, does after all, relate irreplaceable philosophies, concepts, theories, descriptions and meticulous views upon the Universe, cosmology, history, geography etc. The Puranas believed to be both of Buddhist and Hindu origin, do contain immemorial sayings scrpted down during the Gupta Empire. However, down the extended descent and lineage of family line, the Puranas had lost its considerable weightage, being reduced down to just legends and unbelievable concepts, that can never happen in the practical world. However, the men who had patronaged the texts, or the luminaries who had scripted it, cannot be taken just for granted. Because, the limit of knowledge that they possessed, can perhaps never be found in the present world. Men from those times knew so several things on a variety of subjects, which today has narrowed down to almost very shallow things. Theories and explanations on cosmology or geography, criticism on prehistoric universe, or concepts on the Almighty are not perhaps the domains which we discuss today, because we practically know nothing of these kinds. Hence, people who tout Puranas to be just backdated are not knowledgeable enough of the substantiality of these ancient books. Religious views and shedding light upon furtehr advancement of religious beliefs are not the topics that we are aware of. And Puranas have very much discussed to cover all such existing elements. If men from those times were successful enough to state about these features, and we don t have the capability to even put forth a single line, then we also cannot assert Puranas to be useless. Yes, it is very much contemporary.
The Purana treats chiefly of the creation and destruction renovation of worlds, the genealogy and deeds of gods and goddesses along with heroes and kings and lineage of Manu etc. We find that the Puranas deal systematically with the five subjects The Creation, Genealogy of gods and rsis, Manavantars or reigns of Manus as each Manu rules over an aeon , each of which is shorter than the preceding ones Pratisarga or history of humanity, destruction and construction Vansanucarit or history of Solar and Lunar dynasty. These 18 Puranas have still a valuable place in the life of religious Hindus as they serve to connect us with the past ,which we have forgotten and which needs revival is the light of new age. Puranas afford useful matter. The stories described therein are from the ancient past and can connect us to our glory if we decipher them scientifically and base them on reason and facts without any exaggeration or distortion. I personally vouch for the contemporaneity in the Indian Puranas
Is Indian Purana Contemporary
