puranas : an interpretation

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Namaskar,

 

Just a thought I have,What do you have to say about it : am I right orwrong? And

what others have to say, I could be a fool not knowledgeable but this is my

interpretation of the Puranic story. Note it is personal opinion and not

authority hence could be wrong and to be discarded after reading if you find it

wrong.

 

It is stated in our Puranas that there was water everywhere and that Lord Vishnu

rested on his Seshnag on this water. And later on Lord Vishnu's Boar

Avtaar(Incarnation) lifts Earth from the water.

 

As a Hindu I believe that the Puranas are true.

 

But when the rationalist mind laugh at us for believing such stories. So I

questioned if our Puranas are really what they mean or just false stories. So

with a rationalist mind,if you read the story it states water was everywhere

sound hilarious , how can there be water everywhere and no land. And that Vishnu

removed the earth from the water/oceans . But as a Hindu believing that the

sriptures said is a true as a Hindu , and trying to find out if there is

something hidden in it.

 

The Purana states how the Vishnu Avtaar Varaha lifted the earth form

underwater: *"When the demon, Hiranyaksha dragged Bhoomi Devi (Mother Earth)

underwater, Vishnu took the form of Varaha (a wild boar). After a fierce battle

he overpowered the demon and lifted Bhoomi Devi from the waters. He pushed with

his snout and the land puckered forming the **Himalayan** **Mountains**. He

dragged more land from the sea and shaped the Indian subcontinent."

 

(Note: I could not find the exact wordings of the Puranas)*

 

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*Does this not relate to the scientific thought on one of the process of

formation of continents formation of earth? Origionally, all the land mass was

one land mass and termed as Pangea, around 300 million years ago. Infact if you

cut the various continents from a map and try to join, they fit exactly in form

of a puzzle. And that the triangular part of the Indian ap was a separate part.

And when it hit the land mass in the north(Nepalregion), it led to creation of

Himalayas and still since the two land mass are still moving the height of

Himalayas is still rising . That is what scientists say how the Himalayaswere

formed.That is till the continents formed only a small part of the globe had a

collection of land mass and hence the entire globe looked like to be of only

water.

 

 

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*Now in the light of this knowledge that we study the Puranas,the above story of

Vishnu avtaar and what scientist give us are the same. In Puranas they have

mixed it with story and instead of writing that there was a single landmass

called PANGEA, Sages wrote "Earth was hidden in Oceans" as all continents formed

a single land mass it looked like there was water everywhere and that is what is

mentioned in the Vishnu Purana story.

 

Does it now show that the Puranas written by Sages have hidden the same story

that Science is trying to discover now and we Hindus knew it or the Sages knew

it.

 

Probably from this we can infer that in the Puranas there is Science mixed in

mythological and allegorical stories on the formation of earth. In this light we

can even fix the date of Vishnu Avtaar Varaha as 300 million years back or

whatever the scientist think the time the continents drifted.

 

Correct me if I am wrong. This is personal opinions , I am not a scientist who

knows all of Science nor a Sage who knows all scriptures. So could be wrong.