British Fabications about India's History

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(40) Descriptions of the kings of Magadh in the Puranas were

fabricated, historic records were destroyed, false synchronization

of edicts and coins were created to connect them to Ashok of Maurya

dynasty, and in this way misguided the whole world.

 

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The fabrications.

The example of the mutilation in the Bhavishya Puran is one of the

most potent evidences that reveal the style of the working of the

British. It evidently surmises that first they fabricated and

incorporated the desired date of an historical personality in the

original manuscript, whatever they wanted. Then they employed

efficient scholars to write the full page or the full chapter that

had the fabrication by exactly imitating the writing style of the

original. In this way when the imitation was ready to the desired

standard, they destroyed the original sheets and replaced them with

the imitated ones. Now an original-looking manuscript was ready for

circulation which was in fact the fabricated one.

 

When the Venkateshwar Press printed the Bhavishya Puran, as a

general professional policy, they must have looked into more than

one manuscript to ascertain the correctness of the matter, and

because that was the only kind of manuscript available, so it was

printed that way. Other printers copied the same thing which was

printed by the Venkateshwar Press.

 

With this reference it becomes evident that the dynastical

discrepancies in the descriptions of the rulers of Magadh, which are

found in the printed volumes of the Puranas like Vishnu, Matsya,

Vayu and Brahmand, may also be the work of the same people.

 

There is also a possibility that in certain old manuscripts, while

copying, the person may have made some minor mistakes in rewriting

the names and the ruling period of the kings. But, in that case,

there must also have been such ancient manuscripts of the same Puran

that would have correct names and figures, because there were a

number of copies available of all the Puranas at that time. So it

was fully possible to get the correct version of the names and the

ruling period of the kings of the dynasties of Magadh by comparing

all the available manuscripts of those Puranas which describe the

dynasties of Magadh. But it was not done, because the English people

were not interested in correcting the dynastic statements; they were

interested in damaging the statements so that they could find an

excuse to disregard the authenticity of the descriptions of the

Puranas.

 

They had almost all the available manuscripts of the Puranas in

their vast libraries and they had all the possible facilities to

reconstruct and fabricate the manuscripts. Thus, under the above

circumstances, it is most logical to believe that they must have

destroyed these manuscripts (the entire manuscript, or only the

required part of it) which had the correct statements of the kings

of Magadh and kept those few which had some discrepancies; and, at

the same time, they must have also added new discrepancies and

fabricated the manuscripts of the Puranas according to their desired

scheme. In this way, they created a master copy of each Puran with

those dynastical discrepancies and, accordingly, fabricated the rest

of the copies of those Puranas that were in their possession. These

copies were made available for circulation. Later on these

fabricated copies were published which are available nowadays.

 

There are only eight dynasties from Brihadrath to Andhra that are

described in the four Puranas with the names of the kings and their

reigning period. But in the existing available copies they don't

exactly match with each other. The pronunciation of their names and

their reigning period varies. They are supposed to be exactly the

same, but they are not. At some places this discrepancy is enormous.

 

For example: In the Matsya Puran there is a description of only 6

kings in Maurya dynasty whose names are mostly unmatched and are not

in proper sequence and who ruled for (6 + 70 +36 + 8 + 9 + 70) 199

years. But the concluding verse at the end of this description and

in the same chapter tells that the total number of Maurya kings was

10 and their reigning period was 137 years. Such drastic

discrepancies can never be the copying mistakes even if the most

sloppy person is doing this job. It's a clear case of deliberate

fabrication.

 

The last thing is that, except the dynastical discrepancies, all the

available Puranas are still in a perfect shape. Their Divine

references, stories, teachings, technical descriptions, philosophy

and the ancient history, everything is well coordinated and well

established.

 

When were these fabrications done?

You may be interested to know when was that done? It's easy to find

out. Jones gives his last statement in 1793, and after 39 years in

1832 H.H. Wilson, the President of the Asiatic Society of London,

publishes his commentary on the Vishnu Puran in which he gives a

comparative view of the dynastical discrepancies of all the four

Puranas. In this way he establishes a ground to criticize all the

Puranas. Thus, it is clear that these fabrications to distort the

dynastic dates and the pronunciation of the names of the kings of

Magadh were done in the early 19th century. Thirty-nine years were

good enough time for them to fabricate the Puranas.

 

The ingenious trickeries.

(1) The fabrication and the mutilation in the dynastic records of

the Puranas, and its subsequent presentation by H.H. Wilson in his

commentary on the Vishnu Puran, was such an ingenious work of

trickery by the English people that confused every Indian writer and

they couldn't detect the fraud. The writers like Narayana Sastry and

Krishnamacharar also got confused by this trickery and all the

writers thought that the dynastic descriptions of the Puranas were

faulty.

 

(2) Not only that, they did something more which was worse than

that. They promoted and produced some of the religious books (the

Smritis and Grihya Sutras etc.) that had certain impious

interpolations which showed that Hindu Sages killed and ate animals.

They destroyed the true originals, kept the corrupted copies of

those books for circulation and publication, and then said, "See,

your own books are saying that," and in this way all the western

writers got the license to openly abuse the Hindu religion. This

trickery also befooled the whole world.

 

Such interpolations would have been done by the Chatriya Kings of

olden days as they loved to eat meat. So, to justify their such

habits, they employed Sanskirt scholars to add such passages of meat

eating in our hand-written religious books, which later on remained

as collections in the Hindu society.

 

When the English people came to India and started collecting our

handwritten scriptures they discovered those impious interpolations

of meat eating in the religious books of rituals and Smritis etc. It

was in their favor, because they wanted to destroy our religion and

culture. So, using the influence of their ruling power, they

enormously collected our books and employed hundreds of scholars to

reorganize and sort out the books according to their choice. In that

collection there must have been some non-interpolated books in their

unblemished form. Those books would prove hazardous to their scheme,

so they were later on carefully destroyed.

 

This was the period when the members of the Asiatic Society of

Bengal were actively involved in producing such literatures that

degraded and abused Hindu religion, and its president Sir William

Jones, the obedient servant of the British, was wholeheartedly busy

finding ways of how to blemish the greatness of Hindu scriptures and

condemn the Divine history.

 

It is thus very obvious that those people, to achieve their aim of

defaming Hindu religion, must have also done a lot of fabrications

and would have interpolated such verses in Hindu religious books

wherever they would have found it convenient to do so; and later on

they must have destroyed the true and uninterpolated handwritten

books.

 

They knew that Hindus adore their Sages, Saints and acharyas. They

are vegetarian and have great regard for the cow. Thus, with one

blow, they tried to crumble the faith of the Hindus in their Vedic

Sages. They vigorously promoted such ideas which showed that Vedic

brahmans not only ate meat but they loved to eat meat as a must. In

this way they imposed their personal characteristics upon Hindu

Sages.

 

The Greek gods and goddesses were pleased with animal sacrifices,

Roman gods were of the same kind, and the God of OT loved to demand

frequent animal sacrifices from each and every house. Thus, because

such things were in their own religion, the English people, tried to

abuse the Vedic yagyas and the Vedic religion in a similar way.

Could any sensible person imagine the depth and the extent of the

wilfulness of those people who promoted such frauds to delude the

minds of the Hindus from their own religion?

 

In those days, in the late 19th century, there were three major

publishing companies in India, Shree Venkateshwar Press of Bombay

(1871), Nirnaya Sagar Press of Bombay (1864) and Chaukhamba

Vidyabhavan of Varanasi (1892). Most of the religious books and

scriptures were originally published by them. It should be noted

that it was the prime ruling period of the British in India. So it

must be understood that the manuscripts that were produced by the

English people were unhesitatingly printed by these publishers.

Whether they did it knowingly or unknowingly, it can't be said, but

the fact was that for them only those copies were available for

printing.*

 

Thus, on one side, the English people got those fabricated religious

books published and destroyed the true originals; and, on the other

side, they showed to the Hindu community that it is their own

religious books that say such things. In this way, their ingenious

trickery befooled the Hindu society, Hindu scholars and also

befooled the whole world.

 

Now you know the truth. So, wherever such impious verses or passages

are seen in our printed religious books you must know that they are

the malicious gift of the rulers of India of those days.

 

False synchronization of edicts and coins.

To support their fabricated ideology of Chandragupt Maurya being in

300's BC, they did a lot more fabrications and manipulations. There

were two kings in Magadh dynasties: Ashokvardhan, the grandson of

Chandragupt Maurya, who was in the 15th century BC, and Samudragupt

Ashokaditya (Priyadarshin), the son of Chandragupt of Gupt dynasty,

who was in 4th century BC.

 

Samudragupt was called Samudragupt Ashokaditya, or Ashok, or Ashok-

the-Great or Ashok Priyadarshin. He was called Priyadarshin after

adopting the Buddhist religion. But he was generally known as Ashok.

He had a huge empire that stretched up to Punjab, whereas

Ashokvardhan's kingdom was very small. It was the existing Bihar

province of India. Ashok (Samudragupt Ashokaditya) established a

number of monuments throughout his kingdom.

 

Taking advantage of the similarity of their name, the English

people, manipulatingly ascribed all the edicts of Samudragupt

Ashokaditya to Ashokvardhan who was the grandson of Chandragupt

Maurya. The period of Chandragupt Maurya was already pulled down

from 1541 BC to 312 BC by Jones and it was subsequently followed by

the other European writers. So, whatever ancient coins and edicts of

that period (3rd to 4th century B.C.) were found, they tried to

patch it up with Ashokvardhan (Maurya), which, in fact, were related

to Samudragupt Ashokaditya. In general, they fabricated and created

such records that showed wrong historic dates of all of the

important historical figures like Panini, Buddh and Shankaracharya

etc.

 

In this way their writers constructed an enormous amount of biased

literature against Indian religion and history that flooded all the

libraries of India and of the world, which became the basis for all

other writers to follow the same line of negative concepts about

India; and thus, the glory of our scriptural Dignity was suppressed

under the weight of their fabricated net of forged ideologies.

 

They spoiled the social structure of India along with its national

developments.

The policy of the Britishers to create personal embitterment in the

community, the emphasis on the English education, to represent the

Vedic religion in a most demeaning manner, to keep the Indians under

the grip of poverty by not promoting the industrial developments of

India, and to own the big commercial companies themselves, damaged

the entire social structure of India. As a result, the common people

of India lost their national consciousness. They forgot that the

welfare of India is their own welfare and the damage to India is

their own damage; and thus, a deep instinct of personal selfishness

grew in the hearts of the Indians from which they couldn't recover.

 

The nineteenth century and the twentieth century were the prime time

in the history of the world when major social, industrial and

scientific developments happened and the prosperity of a country

touched its heights. But, during that time India was only sucked of

its resources and was left far behind because of the ruling policy

of the British. Two hundred years of loss in the field of

commercial, industrial, technological and scientific development is

such a big thing which can hardly be recouped.