On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > Repelled by such pagan blasphemies, the first British scholars of > India went so far as to invent what we now call “Hinduism,” complete > with a mainstream classical tradition consisting entirely of Sanskrit > philosophical texts like the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads. In > fact, most Indians in the 18th century knew no Sanskrit, the language > exclusive to Brahmins. For centuries, they remained unaware of the > hymns of the four Vedas or the idealist monism of the Upanishads that > the German Romantics, American Transcendentalists and other early > Indophiles solemnly supposed to be the very essence of Indian > civilization. (Smoking chillums and chanting “Om,” the Beats were > closer to the mark.)
http://www.indiadivine.org/articles/236/1/Bhavishya-Purana-The-Prediction-of-Jesus-Christ/Page1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavishya_Purana Smoking anything in Indian summers is harakiri to health. -- .
