Rajeev, FYI.. There are good articles by Koenraad Elst on disputing the veracity of Pushyamitra 'claim' and the Harksha of Kashmir 'claim'.
in short, the pushyamitra claim is sourced out of Ashokavadana.. that is on ashoka written by a buddhist commentator and it says the Ashoka first orders the killing of whatever number of people and he is successful whereas pushyamitra tried something similar and failed...
Secondly Harsha of kashmir broke buddhist and hindu temples as he was converted by then.. check rajatarangini... I shall look up the article of Elst but you should find it on voiceofdharma.org..
i did read koenraad's article on how the story about pushyamitra sunga killing a lot of people was really a repeat of a story about ashoka killing a bunch of buddhists himself, and how he stopped when one of his friends was accidentally killed. (found it in the wikipedia entry for sunga).
not a great story for those who claim ashoka was wonderful, and indirectly that buddhism was (in contrast to hinduism, of course).
koenraad also pointed out how the den-mother of the "eminent historians", romila thapar herself, did not agree that pushyamitra sunga did these things. well, if romila says that, it must be true, by definition, right?
as for harsha of kashmir, yes, i had forgotten his name.
Ram Puniyani has long been associated with our "eminent historians" and is on every committee inimical to Hindus, and, I may add, general common sense. To expect any intelligence response or an open approach on his part is futile.
As usual Ram Puniyani makes assertions without any evidence. B
Abrahamic religions are bigoted and intolerant of the 'other'. Where as in Hinduism there is no external other. Puniyani tries his best to obfuscate this. There is no 'peace' for Kaffirs/Pagans in this life or after death.
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Rajeev,
FYI.. There are good articles by Koenraad Elst on disputing the veracity of Pushyamitra 'claim' and the Harksha of Kashmir 'claim'.
in short, the pushyamitra claim is sourced out of Ashokavadana.. that is on ashoka written by a buddhist commentator and it says the Ashoka first orders the killing of whatever number of people and he is successful whereas pushyamitra tried something similar and failed...
Secondly Harsha of kashmir broke buddhist and hindu temples as he was converted by then.. check rajatarangini... I shall look up the article of Elst but you should find it on voiceofdharma.org..
Regards,
Sarang-
i did read koenraad's article on how the story about pushyamitra sunga killing a lot of people was really a repeat of a story about ashoka killing a bunch of buddhists himself, and how he stopped when one of his friends was accidentally killed. (found it in the wikipedia entry for sunga).
not a great story for those who claim ashoka was wonderful, and indirectly that buddhism was (in contrast to hinduism, of course).
koenraad also pointed out how the den-mother of the "eminent historians", romila thapar herself, did not agree that pushyamitra sunga did these things. well, if romila says that, it must be true, by definition, right?
as for harsha of kashmir, yes, i had forgotten his name.
Ram Puniyani has long been associated with our "eminent historians" and is on every committee inimical to Hindus, and, I may add, general common sense. To expect any intelligence response or an open approach on his part is futile.
As usual Ram Puniyani makes assertions without any evidence. B
Abrahamic religions are bigoted and intolerant of the 'other'. Where as in Hinduism there is no external other. Puniyani tries his best to obfuscate this. There is no 'peace' for Kaffirs/Pagans in this life or after death.
This guy is a shameless liar.
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