Date of the Buddha and RV

[Bharat Gupt]

N. Ganesan wrote:
>
> H. Bechert, The date of the Buddha reconsidered, Indologia
> Taurinensia, 1982, 11, p. 29-36 gives the summary that, based on
> several Japanese scholars' work, the Buddha's parinirvana is around
> 350 B.C. This date of the Buddha (350 BCE) is basically correct since
> L. Cousins' review on Buddha's date on Indology web also takes
> it to be 400 BCE. Probably to be little more conservative.
>
> Scholars assumed a date of 600 BCE just one or two dacades ago.
> Will this bringing forward of the Buddha's times by a minimum
> of two centuries have a bearing on the date of the Rig Veda?
> Ie., the RV's age can be younger by atleast two centuries?
>
> Regards,
> N. Ganesan
>
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A resposne:

YES, INDEED , NOT ONLY OF THE RIGVEDA BUT OF THE BIBLE AND THE BIG BAND
WHICH BROUGHT THIS COSOS INTO CREATION !

BHARAT GUPT