transition from Vedic to Hindu religion

[Dean Michael Anderson]

Correcting a typo in my earlier post:

>I agree that the Vedic gods suffered a loss in status relative to the 
later Hindu gods. 
>But I don't see anything amounting to rejection of 
reviling.

Should read: 
 I don't see anything amounting to rejection OR 
reviling.

--- On Mon, 1/30/12, K. Chowksey <klchxbec at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: K. Chowksey <klchxbec at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: transition from Vedic to Hindu religion
To: "Dean Michael Anderson" <eastwestcultural at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, January 30, 2012, 12:30 PM

I'd
 classify Indra's description in Puranas as reviling esp if you contrast
 it to RgVedic descriptions. Otherwise, nothing very dramatic :-)
Compare
 RV "indrasya nu vīryāṇi pra vocaṃ yāni cakāra prathamāni vajrī" to any 
Bhagavata Purana's tale of Indra rushing to Vishnu for help in Samudra 
Manthana

Anothing thing I
 might add and that is not mainstream Hindu religion, rather a sectarian
 belief; is selecting those passages from Rgveda which show Rudra to be 
wrathful; and therefore projecting Hindu Shiva as not so prayer-worthy 
as Vishnu.
RV_01.114.10 āre te goghnamuta pūruṣaghnaṃ kṣayadvīra sumnamasme teastu
mṛḷā ca no adhi ca brūhi devādhā ca naḥ śarma
 yachadvibarhāḥ

The sectarian debates between Vaishnavas and Shaivaites do take a rather hostile expression sometimes.

-Kapil
        From: Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at yahoo.com>
 To: K. Chowksey <klchxbec at yahoo.com> 
 Sent: Monday, 30 January 2012 12:07 PM
 Subject: Re: transition from Vedic
 to Hindu religion
   
I
 agree that the Vedic gods suffered a loss in status relative to the 
later Hindu gods. But I don't see anything amounting to rejection of 
reviling.

It appears to be a gradual development of religious thought as one sees in similar cases.

I was not aware of the Ganapati/Brahmanaspati conflation. Fascinating.

Best,

Dean


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