[FairfieldLife] Re: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2009-07-20 Thread guyfawkes91
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: As I suggested earlier in the week, I consider the Harry Potter books to be *easily* on the same footing as the Vedas. The films a little less so, except for the most recent one, because it contains something that the Vedic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2009-07-20 Thread WillyTex
guyfawkes wrote: Itihasa means the final laughter In Sanskrit, 'itihasa' means history, 'so it happened'. The Vedas are not a history, they are prayers. You probably got 'veda' mixed up with the Sanskrit term 'purana', history. Veda Vyasa classified Valmiki's Ramayana and his own Mahabharata as