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The 'Bhavishya Purana' (Шаблон:IAST) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The title Bhavishya means "future" and implies it is a work that contains prophecies regarding the future.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The Bhavishya Purana exists in many inconsistent versions, wherein the content as well as their subdivisions vary, and five major versions are known.Шаблон:Sfn Some manuscripts have four Parvam (parts), some two, others don't have any parts.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The text as it exists today is a composite of material ranging from medieval era to the modern era. Those sections of the surviving manuscripts that are dated to be older, are partly borrowed from other Indian texts such as Brihat Samhita and Shamba Purana.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The veracity and authenticity of much of the Bhavishya Purana has been questioned by modern scholars and historians, and the text is considered an example of "constant revisions and living nature" of Puranic genre of Hindu literature.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The first 16 chapters of the first part of the Bhavisya Purana is called Brahmaparvam. It shows similarities to, and likely borrowed verses from some version of the Manusmriti.Шаблон:Sfn[1] However, some of the caste-related and women's rights related discussion in the Bhavishya Purana is egalitarian and challenge those found in the 19th century published manuscripts of the Manusmriti.Шаблон:Sfn[2][3] The second part of the text, called Madhyamaparvan, is a Tantra-related work.Шаблон:Sfn The "prophecy"-related third part Pratisargaparvan includes sections on Christianity, Islam, Bhakti movement, Sikhism, Sultanate history, Mughal history, British rule, and others. Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[4] The fourth part of the text called Uttaraparvam, is also known as Bhavishyottara Purana. This last part describes festivals related to various Hindu gods and goddesses and their Tithis (dates on lunar calendar), as well as mythology and a discussion of Dharma particularly vrata (vow) and dana (charity).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The text also has many Mahatmya chapters on geography, travel guide and pilgrimage to holy sites such as Uthiramerur,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and is one of the Tirtha-focussed Puranas.Шаблон:Sfn

The available versions of Bhavishya Purana are based on a printed text published during the British colonial era.

Manuscripts

The Bombay edition contains:

  • Brahmaparvan which has 215 chapters.
  • Madhyamaparvan which has three sections with a cumulative total of 62 chapters,
  • Pratisargaparvan which has four sections with 7, 35, 32 and 26 chapters respectively, and
  • Uttaraparvan which has 208 chapters.

Some manuscripts of the text do not have these Parvans and have different number of chapters.Шаблон:Sfn A few manuscripts assert that it has five parts (Sanskrit: parvans), but all extant editions contain only the above four parts.[5] The text is sometimes titled Шаблон:IAST.Шаблон:Sfn

Dating

In records of land grants of the fifth century CE, verses are quoted which occur only in the Padma, Bhavishya, and Brahma Puranas. On this basis Pargiter in 1912 assigned these particular Puranas to the early centuries CE. However, Moriz Winternitz considers it more probable that these verses, both in the inscriptions and in the puranas, were taken as quotations from now nonextant dharmaśāstras.[6] According to Winternitz, the text which has come down to us in manuscript form is certainly not the ancient work which is quoted in the Шаблон:IAST ; a quotation attributed to the Шаблон:IAST cannot be found anymore in extant editions.[7][8]

It is now accepted that the four parts have different dates. However, Puranic scholars have increasingly arrived at a consensus that it is impossible to meaningfully date most of the Puranic corpus due to their extremely fluid nature. Gustav Glaesser reiterates this argument to highlight how the surviving manuscripts of Bhavishya Purana are neither the ancient nor a medieval version of some original Bhavishya Purana.

Contents

Despite being labelled a purana or "tales of ancient times", the work relates only a few legends. It is one of several puranas in which a list of royal dynasties of the "past" are followed by lists of kings predicted to rule in the future.[9]

The first 16 chapters of the first part of the Bhavisya Purana is called Brahmaparvam. The second part of the text, called Madhyamaparvan, is a Tantra-related work.Шаблон:Sfn The "prophecy"-related third part Pratisargaparvan includes sections on comparing Upanishadic ideas to those found in non-Indic religions, as well as a history through the 18th century. It is considered by scholars as an 18th or 19th century creation.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The fourth part of the text called Utharaparvam, is also known as Bhavishyothara Purana. This last part describes festivals, vrata (vow), dana (charity) and pilgrimage sites.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

In the Padma Purana,[10] it is classified in the rajas category, which contains puranas related to Brahma.Шаблон:Sfn[11][12] Scholars consider the Sattva-Rajas-Tamas classification as "entirely fanciful" and there is nothing in this text that actually justifies this classification.Шаблон:Sfn

Brāhmaparvan

This part of the text has 215 chapters.Шаблон:Sfn It covers topics such as rites of passage, ceremonies and feasts.[13] It also covers the duties and rights of women, a discussion on the nature of people and how to identify good and bad characters, and a caste-related discussion. According to Arora, and other scholars,Шаблон:Sfn[3] the caste-related and women's rights related discussion in the Bhavishya Purana is egalitarian, similar to those found in Brahma Purana and Vajrasuchi Upanishad, thus challenging Manusmriti.Шаблон:Sfn[2][14]Шаблон:Sfn

The Brahmaparvan also includes sections on festival dates and methods for worshipping Brahma, Ganesha, Skanda, and the Nāga.Шаблон:Sfn[15] A considerable section deals with Sun worship in a place called "Śākadvīpa" which may be a reference to Scythia.[16][17] This overlaps with Zoroastrianism-related views,Шаблон:Sfn and may be related to ancient migration or interaction between Persia and central Asia with Indian subcontinent.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn These chapters are the most comprehensive and important source of sun-worship tradition in India, and may be related to the escape and resettlement of people from Persia into western India during the mid to late medieval era.Шаблон:Sfn

Madhyamaparvan

The second part of the Bhavisya Purana has 62 chapters on Tantra.Шаблон:Sfn

This is not mentioned in other Indian text, states Hazra, to have been a part of the Bhavishya Purana, and therefore might be "a late appendage" abounding in Tantric theories of the 2nd millennium.[18] However, states Rocher, these sections were likely integrated by about 1500 CE.Шаблон:Sfn

Pratisargaparvan

The Pratisarga parvan has 100 chapters,Шаблон:Sfn which deal with topics such as the genealogy of the kings and sages, and prophecies.Шаблон:Sfn It is written as a universal history with the first and the second chapters (called Khandas) dealing with old time, the third part with the medieval, and the fourth with the new age.[4] The text includes the plundering of regions and major massacres in India after the 12th century, including those of Timur-Tamburlaine in section 3.4.6 (the text calls him Timiralinga, or "linga of darkness").[19] It compares "Upanishadic" religion with the religions of the mlecchas in a way "comparative religions" studies do, states Alf Hiltebeitel, along with historical characters whose ideas and actions impacted India between the 11th and 14th centuries. It includes critical comments about the Mughal history (the texts calls them "Mukula") and refers to a Mahamada who is a Last Prophet of the "mlecchas" The Arabs.[19] This suggests this section was written well after the 14th century. The author of this parvan of the Bhavisya Purana seems to know both English Biblical and Arabic Islamic texts, but virtually all terms used here are derived from Arabic words and names, not the English sources. Thus, this part of the text must have been composed after the start of the Mughal empire and after Arabic sources were available in India.[19] This section has led numerous scholars to question the authenticity of much of the Bhavishya Purana, and as evidence that these Puranas were not scriptures, but rather a document of history that was constantly revised and thus of a living nature, both over time and over geography.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[4]

According to Alf Hiltebeitel,[4] the second quarter of the eighteenth century marks the terminus a quo for the text's history of the Mughals because it mentions Nadir Shah (calling him Daitya Nadira) and Muhammad Shah in section 3.4.22. This c. mid-18th century terminus a quo would also apply to Pratisargaparvan's first khanda Genesis-Exodus sequence where its author is aware of both Arabic and English sources.[20] Further, mention of Queen Victoria's palaces, Calcutta and several 18th century historic events place the terminus ad quem (completed before a year) at mid to late 19th Century.[21][22] Hiltebeitel states that this part of the Bhavisya Purana was mostly likely composed in the 19th century.[23][24] Sri Sri Ravi Shankar claimed in his book "Hinduism and Islam: The Common Thread" that Muhammad is explicitly prophesied in Pratisargaparvan of Bhavishya Purana.[25]

Uttaraparvan

The Uttaraparvan is large with 208 chapters.Шаблон:Sfn Though nominally attached to the Bhavishya Purana, is usually considered to be an independent work, also known as the Шаблон:IAST, and as such is included among the Upapuranas (Lesser Puranas).[26] The Шаблон:IAST is primarily a handbook of religious rites with a few legends and myths.[27] Rajendra Hazra characterizes it as "a loose collection of materials taken from various sources" that is lacking in many of the traditional five characteristics of a purana, but which offers an interesting study of vows, festivals, and donations from sociological and religious point of view.[28]

The Bhavishya Purana also includes Mahatmya (travel guides) to pilgrimage sites such as Uthiramerur.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Influences

Indologist Theodor Aufrecht had noted the Bombay manuscript edition to be a modern era "literary fraud" that plagiarized excerpts from the Pentateuch (Bible) brought to India by early missionaries. According to Gustav Glaesser, this should not be considered "fraud" because such borrowing from all sorts of sources, interpolations and additions are common in the Puranas genre.[29]Шаблон:Efn In the same way, the Bhavishya Purana takes ideas from Semitic, Mesopotamian, Persian, Christian and other sources. This is evidenced by the use of words in Bhavishya Purana that are neither Sanskrit nor Prakrit, such as , Falgun (for February), shashtihi (for sixty) and others.[29]

See also

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 Raj Arora (1972), Historical and cultural data from the Bhavisya Purana, Sterling Publishers, Шаблон:Oclc, pages viii-ix, 92-119, Chapter 4
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 L Gopal (1986), Bhavisya Purana Brahma Parvan Chapters 40-44, Journal: Purana, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2 (July), pages 174-196
  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 Шаблон:Cite book
  5. ↑ For self-report of five parts, but only four parts in the printed text, see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 263.
  6. ↑ For the fifth century CE land grant references, citation to Pargiter (1912), and debunking of the theory, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 526, note 2.
  7. ↑ For statement that the extant text is not the ancient work, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 567.
  8. ↑ For the quotation in Шаблон:IAST attributed to the Шаблон:IAST not extant today, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 519.
  9. ↑ For the Шаблон:IAST as one of several puranas predicting future kings (others being the Matsya, Vāyu, Шаблон:IAST, Шаблон:IAST, Bhāgavata, and Шаблон:IAST Puranas, see: Winternitz, volume 1, pp. 523–524.
  10. ↑ Mathett, Freda, "The Purāṇas" in Flood (2003), p. 137
  11. ↑ Flood (1996), p. 110.
  12. ↑ Mathett, Freda, "Purāṇa" in Flood (2003), p. 137
  13. ↑ For the characterization of the content, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 541-542.
  14. ↑ For women and varna-related discussion, signs of people, see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 264.
  15. ↑ For Brahma, Ganesha, Skanda, and the Snakes see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 264.
  16. ↑ For the sun worship in "Śākadvīpa", which may be Scythia, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 567.
  17. ↑ For a large number of chapters on Sun worship, solar myths, and Śāka-dvipa, see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 264.
  18. ↑ For quotation from Hazra regarding the Madhyamaparvan as a late appendage, see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 263.
  19. ↑ 19,0 19,1 19,2 Шаблон:Cite book
  20. ↑ Alf Hiltebeitel Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics 2009 Page 276 "Thus 1739 could mark a terminus a quo for the text's history of the Mughals. If so, the same terminus would apply to its Genesis-Exodus sequence in its first khanda, its Jesus-Muhammad diptych in its third (the Krsnam&acaritd), and the history ..."
  21. ↑ Alf Hiltebeitel Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics 2009 Page 277 "Since references to Queen Victoria's Calcutta provide a mid- to even late-nineteenth-century terminus ad quem for other ... but of the Genesis-Exodus sequence and the Krsnamsacarita —with its Jesus and Muhammad passages— as well."
  22. ↑ Bonazzoli, Giorgio: Christ in the Bhavisya Purana [Engl.]. (a methodological approach to Bhav. P. III. 3.2.21-32), Journal: Purana issue 21, January 1979, pp. 23-39.
  23. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  24. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  25. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  26. ↑ For independent classification of the Uttaraparvan as the Шаблон:IAST see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 263.
  27. ↑ For the contents of the Шаблон:IAST and characterizing it as a continuation of the Bhavishya Purana see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 567.
  28. ↑ For quotation related to loose collection of materials see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "The Шаблон:IAST" in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 285.
  29. ↑ 29,0 29,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
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