Hindu Religion

[Mukesh Sharma]

Who is the founder of Hindu religion?

 

[Aupmanyav]

It is a mix of pagan religions of India to which beliefs of the people who came into India from Central Asia (mainly Indo-Aryans) were added. No founder. Various sects and philosophies surely have their founders.

 

[sealchan]

It is a mix of pagan religions of India to which beliefs of the people who came into India from Central Asia (mainly Indo-Aryans) were added. No founder. Various sects and philosophies surely have their founders.

To what extent is the sage Vyasa considered to be a founder?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Not at all. Vyasa literally means a compiler. He was a story teller. No doubt, a big figure in Hindu mythology. Credited to be the writer of 18 puranas including Bhagawat Purana, Brahma Sutras, Mahabharata and compiler of Vedas along with his four pupils. But the stories he wrote in Sanskrit existed before Sanskrit came to India. These are indigenous stories which find no mention in the Vedas.

 

[sealchan]

Not at all. Vyasa literally means a compiler. He was a story teller. No doubt, a big figure in Hindu mythology. Credited to be the writer of 18 puranas including Bhagawat Purana, Brahma Sutras, Mahabharata and compiler of Vedas along with his four pupils. But the stories he wrote in Sanskrit existed before Sanskrit came to India. These are indigenous stories which find no mention in the Vedas.

So does that indicate he is seen (mythically) as the one who took the stories and teachings from the oral tradition and set them in the literate one?

 

[Aupmanyav]

So does that indicate he is seen (mythically) as the one who took the stories and teachings from the oral tradition and set them in the literate one?

Yeah, Vyasa is a mythical person. Just too many and varied things are ascribed to him. All that he is supposed to have written or compiled belong to different genres.

 

[Craig Sedok]

To what extent is the sage Vyasa considered to be a founder?

To be a founder is what a stone is. Ever wonder what a vyasa iss. A nature, a tempest, a twirl of a pen or a pent soul in a gog aura gon. I Own this goverment. I own the soul of what life is. Benjamin Franklin. My bill owns it all.