It dates from around 1500BC, and when was the Torah written down?
1513 B.C.E. That precedes the Vedas, even if your figure was true, which it isn't.
Around 1 Billion people are Hindu.
Most of whom groveled in the swamp of illiteracy until recently. The book is no good to people who cannot read. Jews were literate from the time of their nation's inception.
It was only in the fourteenth century A.D. that
the Veda was written down... (
A History of India, 1978, page 24 P. K. Saratkumar)
Completely untrue and irrelevant. The Rig-Veda was composed before the Torah and survives to this day.
You cannot prove that and you dont seem to know anything about the Vedas.
Note these facts:
Thus, it is significant that of sacred books, the Bible was one of the first to be put into writing. In fact, Moses completed its first section in 1513 B.C.E.
By contrast, according to
The Encyclopedia of Religion, the Upanishads,
an extension of the Vedas dating from the eighth to the fourth century B.C.E. and compiled in Sanskrit, were first put into written form in 1656 CE. But this was not a case of negligence. It was intentional.
Historian Will Durant explains: The
Vedas and the epics were songs that grew with the generations of those that recited them; they were intended not for sight but for sound. (
AW 89 3/22 p. 12)
Heres some info about the contents of the Vedas:
It was never regarded as sacred scripture but is composed of hymns, passed down orally until the 14th century A.D. when they were written down.
According to yet another hymn, the gods made the universe from the sacrifice of a cosmic man. The moon was produced from his mind (
manas), the sun (
surya) from his eye, .　.　. from his head the sky, from his feet the earth.
From him also came the different castes and animals.
Such explanations, however, did not fully satisfy those
rishis who desired to know the truth. Therefore, as they conclude the Vedas, they still wonder:
Who knows the truth? Who can tell whence and how arose this universe? The [Vedic] gods are later than its beginning: who knows therefore whence comes this creation? Only that god who sees in highest heaven: he only knows whence came this universe, and whether it was made or uncreated. He only knows, or perhaps he knows not.
The
rishis addressed their hymns to such deified natural elements as the sun, sky, wind, and fire. But they did not view any one of these as the supreme deity. Consequently, in the last book of the
Rig-Veda, they ask: What God shall we adore with our oblation? In other words, which of the 33 gods of the Vedas is the Creator whom we should worship in love and truth?
At the completion of the Vedas, the rishis had not found the true God so as to worship him. They were still seeking him.
The Vedas, therefore, are not a revelation of　Gods truth but are a record of the rishis earnest search for it. The quest is now taken up in the Upanishads, the next great body of scriptures of India.
( Worship God chap. 4 p. 11)
Thus, from 2 different sources, A History Of India and The Encyclopedia Of Religion, that you have learned that the Vedas are not sacred scripture and are not older than the Torah.
Now you can go ahead and produce information disproving that.
This means that for most of the time the Vedas were in existence the people could not read it. The same cannot be said of the Torah.
Thats YOUR word! Now lets have the proof.
The Vedas was never under attack by any nation the way the Bible was.
Not at all!
In the years before Christ, the Jews who produced the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) were a relatively small nation.
They dwelt precariously amid powerful political states that were jostling with one another for supremacy. Israel had to fight for its life against a succession of nations, such as the Philistines, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and the Edomites.
During a period when the Hebrews were divided into two kingdoms, the cruel Assyrian Empire virtually wiped out the northern kingdom, while the Babylonians destroyed the southern kingdom, taking the people into an exile from which only a remnant returned 70 years later.
There are even reports of attempted genocide against the Israelites. Back in the days of Moses, Pharaoh ordered the murder of all their newborn baby boys. If his order had been observed, the Hebrew people would have been annihilated. (Exodus 1:15-22) Much later, when the Jews came under Persian rule, their enemies plotted to get a law passed intended to exterminate them. (Esther 3:1-15) The failure of this scheme is still celebrated in the Jewish Festival of Purim.
Later still, when the Jews were subject to Syria, King Antiochus　IV tried very hard to Hellenize the nation, forcing it to follow Greek customs and worship Greek gods. He too failed. Instead of being wiped out or assimilated, the Jews survived while, one after the other, most of the national groups around them disappeared from the world scene. And the Hebrew Scriptures of the Bible survived with them.
The Christians, who produced the second part of the Bible (the New Testament), were also an oppressed group. Their leader, Jesus, was killed like a common criminal. In the early days after his death, Jewish authorities in Palestine tried to suppress them. When Christianity spread to other lands, the Jews hounded them, trying to hinder their missionary work.Acts 5:27, 28; 7:58-60; 11:19-21; 13:45; 14:19; 18:5,6.
In the time of Nero, the initially tolerant attitude of the Roman authorities changed. Tacitus boasted of the exquisite tortures inflicted on Christians by that vicious emperor, and from his time on, being a Christian was a capital offense.2 In 303　C.E., Emperor Diocletian acted directly against the Bible. In an effort to stamp out Christianity, he ordered that all Christian Bibles should be burned.
These campaigns of oppression and genocide were a real threat to the Bibles survival. If the Jews had gone the way of the Philistines and the Moabites or if the efforts of first the Jewish and then the Roman authorities to stamp out Christianity had succeeded, who would have written and preserved the Bible? Happily, the guardians of the Biblefirst the Jews and then the Christianswere not wiped out, and the Bible survived. ( Gods Word chap. 2 pp. 14-17)
On the other hand, the Vedas never experienced a struggle to survive.
The Bibles survival, therefore, is remarkable - different from any other religious or historical document.
thats 61 years old. 
