[1]Архивная копия от 24 октября 2014 на Wayback Machine Paul Deussen, Philosophy of the Upanishads, Pg. 51. «these treatises are not the work of a single genius, but the total philosophical product of an entire epoch which extends [from] approximately 1000 or 800 BC, to c.500 BC, but which is prolonged in its offshoots far beyond this last limit of time.»
Indiana University, Module 9Архивная копия от 9 января 2010 на Wayback Machine, «Passage to India» One is left largely with scholarly guesses, but it is intriguing to entertain the possibility that traditions of ritual bathing, some sort of tradition of meditation or Yoga, possible proto-types of Shiva and a mother goddess, and a cult of sacred animals, all of which are prominent features in later Hindu traditions, may indeed be traceable ultimately all the way back to the third millenium B.C.E., and possibly earlier to the Baluchistan and Sind village cultures that go back to time immemorial.
Indiana University «India Studies Program»Архивная копия от 14 марта 2010 на Wayback Machine, Module 6 The passage to India: «As mentioned earlier in our brief summary of the religions of India, the Jain tradition is one of the oldest traditions in India and may go back as far as Indus Valley times, that is, to the second millenium Before the Common Era (2000—1500 BCE), although the precise origins of the tradition are not yet fully known»
Indiana University «India Studies Program»Архивная копия от 1 августа 2009 на Wayback MachinePassage to India, Module 11. «Upanishads came to be composed already in the ninth and eighth century B.C.E. and continued to be composed well into the first centuries of the Common Era. The Brahmanas and Aranyakas are somewhat older, reaching back to the eleventh and even twelfth century B.C.E.»
Indiana University, Module 9Архивная копия от 9 января 2010 на Wayback Machine, «Passage to India» One is left largely with scholarly guesses, but it is intriguing to entertain the possibility that traditions of ritual bathing, some sort of tradition of meditation or Yoga, possible proto-types of Shiva and a mother goddess, and a cult of sacred animals, all of which are prominent features in later Hindu traditions, may indeed be traceable ultimately all the way back to the third millenium B.C.E., and possibly earlier to the Baluchistan and Sind village cultures that go back to time immemorial.
Indiana University «India Studies Program»Архивная копия от 14 марта 2010 на Wayback Machine, Module 6 The passage to India: «As mentioned earlier in our brief summary of the religions of India, the Jain tradition is one of the oldest traditions in India and may go back as far as Indus Valley times, that is, to the second millenium Before the Common Era (2000—1500 BCE), although the precise origins of the tradition are not yet fully known»
Indiana University «India Studies Program»Архивная копия от 1 августа 2009 на Wayback MachinePassage to India, Module 11. «Upanishads came to be composed already in the ninth and eighth century B.C.E. and continued to be composed well into the first centuries of the Common Era. The Brahmanas and Aranyakas are somewhat older, reaching back to the eleventh and even twelfth century B.C.E.»
[1]Архивная копия от 24 октября 2014 на Wayback Machine Paul Deussen, Philosophy of the Upanishads, Pg. 51. «these treatises are not the work of a single genius, but the total philosophical product of an entire epoch which extends [from] approximately 1000 or 800 BC, to c.500 BC, but which is prolonged in its offshoots far beyond this last limit of time.»
