Revisiting the Date of Rigveda | Prof. Gaya Charan Tripathi | Sangam Talks

Chronology of the Vedic literature, a plea to re-look at the date of the Rigveda.
It is well known that the Indian authors, unlike their Roman, Greek, and Chinese counterparts, never cared to mention the exact date of their literary creations. However, over the ages, historians have tried to round up on specific time-lines of the composition of the Vedas. Prof. Tripathi draws many parallels between the Indian and the corresponding European civilizations, drawing from a wide range of subjects like language, etymology, anthropology, ancient inscriptions, even astronomy, to determine a date for the creation of the Rigveda. According to him, there is much substance in the view that the Vedic hymns were traditionally handed down in various families of sages and were subsequently collected into various samhitas or collections. The timelines for these collections, being ‘the beginning of the kali era’ could be in or around 3000 B.C., while the composition of the hymns as such goes back to a much earlier era around 4000 B.C.

About the Speaker:
Prof. Gaya Charan Tripathi, Indian research administrator, educator. Recipient Gold medal for proficiency in Sanskrit German Academy Exchange Service, Bonn, Federal Republic Germany, 1962-1966, Certified Honor, President India, 2005. President Bhasha-Sangam Society, Allahabad, 1985-1991, Uttar Pradesh Government Sanskrit Academy, 1992-1995.

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[suvrt]

The lecture required to be dubbed in hindi and local indian languages so that general public may understand and get enlightened from the research. However 👌 for efforts

[premlatamahale]

Indians should be told about our culture and literature again and again for the coming generation to feel good about our ancient intelligent scientist rishis, philosophical rishis, and highly educated rishis !!! Proud to be born in this divine land called Bharatvarsh ?

[vincentconti]

The most amazing piece of ancient history for me is the fact that the ancient Indians knew about the procession of the equinox. This required the passing of information for twenty five thousand years!!!! Supposedly orally! Wow!!!

[utubetruthteller]

We should not bother about what western experts say about dating of veda but we should do our own research and present to the Indians and the world.

[shahnaishadh]

Mahabharata war was in 5561 BC. Need to check and correct your dating. Nilesh Oak has given many evidences. You should counter it if you feel he is wrong. In Gita, Vedas are mentioned multiple times. So, it pre-exited in 5561BC.

[gopalkrishnamukerjea]

Exceptional paper with great research work and intellect. Best point Shri Tripathi never deviated from the core issue!

[vyanjanadubey]

Can we get the hindi version of these videos ? I want to show it to my mother.

[Wilnina]

We need more of such scholars and not half baked info of Nilesh Oak and Rupa Bhaty. Sangam please bring these kind of true scholars.

[mikedesi]

Excellent talk Vedic aryans lived along saraswati river ate fish did yagnas and composed vedas these were same people from Indus Valley people who later migrated after saraswati died up 5000 bce for migraines and 3000 bce for Veda composition sounds perfect

[prempankajpanjiyara]

यह प्रोग्राम हमारी राष्ट्रभाषा हिंदी में हो तो बहुत अच्छा लगेगा और ज्यादा से ज्यादा लोगों के बीच पहुंचेगा

[saheeljaleel]

this should be spoken in a common platform so that pros and cons can be highlighted to every one hearing.his written speach does not carry any weight to those seeking for the truth.this speach is a single track event not fitting to modern era.why not have an open speach giving other scholars a chance to affirm or negate .

[ManoharSingh-teuk]

What, I believe is to launch a channel of the same in HINDI.
This is one of the most important channels and the lecturers are one of the most prominent peoples, but the reach of this channel is very limited because it is in ENGLISH. My request is translate all conversations in Hindi.

[vincentconti]

This stuff is so cool. How did those people live? Were they like us more or less or would it have been totally bizarre?? I believe a little bit of both. Gracias!!!

[MukeshSharma-jgrs]

Prof. you are referring to dating the writing of ऋग्वेद: (Rgved). Are you factoring in that ऋग्वेद: (Rgved) was verbally inherited by successive generations for a very long time.

[vasu]

That's a great and real wisdom. Thank you sir🙏

[ganeshandurkar]

सर, please have discussion with Rupa Bhatiji for deciding Rugved time line based on astronomical, oceanography etc many more scientific evidences before concluding. Thank you.

[amlaansatapathy]

Vedas are always eternal but Veda Vyasa wrote it for us jivas of ( Kali Yuga ) in around 5500 years ago. Today we have only 6 to 7 % of the entire vedic canon beacuse all these were destroyed by invader.

[jsvas]

Minimum 10000 Bc, before Ramayanam period vedic culture flourished because Mahabharata was fixed as 3012 BC;
Yuga in some texts is 5000years.
So theory of aryan is discarded by CCMB.

[arunade]

But,
Why the question of Migration/Invasion arises again & again?
In whole Bharatiya Sanskrit Literature, they is no mention of any Aryan Race, No mention of Migration in India but outside the India could be Possible.

[sharatbhatmaskeri]

Vedas available today are compiled by Maharsi Vedavyasa as mention by our own text. Vedas are not literature written by some A B C. Theses are eternal truth visualised at Rutambara Prajna. Even in 20th century new veda visualised by Maharshi Daivarata for which bhashya written by Vasista Ganapati Muni and published as Chandodarshana by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. So how can you decide date of vedas?