[world-vedic] When was "the Agastya Samhita" written?

October 24, 1999

Thanx for your reply. I had posted this message on another list and got a response as follows:

"Hans Bakker in his AyodhyA (Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1986, pp. 68-70)reckons

it to have been composed in 12th century (CE) Benares."

This Samhita talks about making electricity and dry battery cells. As an

electrical engineer, I was curious of the purpose for making "the battery"

Any educated guess!!!!!

Regards/Kailash

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Radha Govinda Mandir

vediculture

Friday, October 22, 1999 10:04 PM

[world-vedic] Re: When was "the Agastya Samhita" written?

My dear kailash Srivatsa:

Namaste, HARE KRISHNA!, let TRY OF ANSWER ABOUT YOUR QUESTION. Yes the

Agatsya samhita, is a book of the pancharatra vaisnava school that date

before of puranic compilation. But by the dostortion of British scholars,

the modern wensters Indologist believe very recent dates.,around 8 century D

A, but the Mahabharata and the Vedanta-sutra make references about them. The

Agatsyas were a dynasty of brahmans, and probably the author of this samhita

was the same Agatsya sage that appear in the Bhagavatam, one comtemporany of

Lord Krishna, because in this book makes reference to the Krsna worship in

the Temple. Probably, was compiler after of Mausala lila of Krishna, due

that the Krishna worship was stated by Vajranabha yadava king, the son of

Anirudha the great son of Lord Krishna, in all India.