How and Why puranas contradict

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Originally the alphabets (letters) was not used as a mode of communication, so the puranas were carried by people by heart and passed on to the next generation.

 

So there were many versions of puranas and many puranas carry same story with different interepretaions

 

With different and contradictory includes by the people based on their mindset and social encounters and experiences.

 

So you may see many puranas sometime carry even filthy languages and unimaginable relationships - which surely depicts the mind set of person/persons through whom it came to us.

 

Many people who identified with a particular religion pasted and altered stories in praise of the lord they worship. Thats the reason you find Lord Shiva shown in bad light in some puranas.

 

If one argues that puranas were never got altered then the taste and nature of Vyasa himself needs to be looked into deeply - going by the kind of depiction of many events in the Puranas.

 

If they are Vyasa's original versions - then it cant contradict - there can not be two truths - the very fact of contraditing events denotes the fault at either Vyasa's side or at people who carried it to us.

 

If one seriously reads all the Eighteen puranas he/she may even turn out to be an athiest.

 

So dont read all the puranas - infact dont read them at all and read only life histories and stories of devotees who reached god by their devotion.

 

Thanks & regards

vm sunder

 

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[hindu12 0]

 

Originally the alphabets (letters) was not used as a mode of communication, so the puranas were carried by people by heart and passed on to the next generation.

 

So there were many versions of puranas and many puranas carry same story with different interepretaions

 

With different and contradictory includes by the people based on their mindset and social encounters and experiences.

 

So you may see many puranas sometime carry even filthy languages and unimaginable relationships - which surely depicts the mind set of person/persons through whom it came to us.

 

Many people who identified with a particular religion pasted and altered stories in praise of the lord they worship. Thats the reason you find Lord Shiva shown in bad light in some puranas.

 

If one argues that puranas were never got altered then the taste and nature of Vyasa himself needs to be looked into deeply - going by the kind of depiction of many events in the Puranas.

 

If they are Vyasa's original versions - then it cant contradict - there can not be two truths - the very fact of contraditing events denotes the fault at either Vyasa's side or at people who carried it to us.

 

If one seriously reads all the Eighteen puranas he/she may even turn out to be an athiest.

 

So dont read all the puranas - infact dont read them at all and read only life histories and stories of devotees who reached god by their devotion.

 

Thanks & regards

vm sunder

 

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You are correct and in fact the puranas were written much later then all the other hindu texts. much later.

 

some Puranas carry racism also or skin color bias and sexual content. but i think this is due to some fair skin north indians, by the time puranas were written there were considerable amount of people from outside (iran, turks, greeks) pouring into india. i dont believe in that aryan race stuff which is british invention. but in the south indian puranas goddess parvati is considered black and beautiful so i think this is a north indian thing.

 

 

but not all puranas are bad. the thing is, the puranas have many good ancient stories and fables passed down from many generations, but i agree they have been altered.

 

the best thing is to read vedas, vedanata, gita and mahabharata and ramayana.