What is the place origin of Hinduism?

Answer 1

Answer 1:Hinduism has its origins in such remote past that it cannot be traced to any one individual. Some scholars believe that Hinduism must have existed even in circa 10000 B.C. and that the earliest of the Hindu scriptures - The Rig Veda - was composed well before 6500 B.C. The word "Hinduism" is not to be found anywhere in the scriptures, and the term "Hindu" was introduced by foreigners who referred to people living across the River Indus or Sindhu, in the north of India, around which the Vedic religion is believed to have originated. Answer 2:Some historians say that Hinduism had its roots over 3,500 years ago in a wave of migration that brought a pale skinned, Aryan people down from the northwest into the Indus Valley, now located mainly in India and Pakistan. From there they spread into the Ganges River plains and across India. Some experts say that the religious ideas of the migrants were based on ancient Iranian and Babylonian teachings. One thread common to many cultures and also found in Hinduism is a flood legend. Answer 3:

In terms of its religious development there are now two basic theories that attempt to explain how Hinduism first developed within India, and they both draw on the famous ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti verse for their effectiveness. One suggests that at some time towards the end of the Indus Valley Civilization (circa 1700 BCE) a group of nomadic people called the Aryans moved into northern India from the steppes of central Europe or even Asia Minor. This is called the "Indo-Aryan Migration Theory" and it was first posited after the relationship between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin was discovered along with other archaeological evidence that emerged in the late 18th century. According to this view, these Aryans mixed with the indigenous Dravidian and other peoples of the Indian subcontinent, and in time the Aryan religious stream combined with the indigenous streams and became what today we call Hinduism.

The other theory suggests that Hinduism emerged out of India itself. This is the "Out of India Theory" and it says that Aryan culture is a development from the Indus valley civilization and not one introduced by outside invaders or migrants. It says that the religious development of Hinduism has been wholly indigenous. It also suggests that the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin are the result of Aryan migrations in the opposite direction, out of India and into Europe. Aryan tribes from within India spread throughout Europe bringing their culture, language and religion. Passages from the Mahabharata and other Hindu texts are quoted in support of this theory.

Whether the Aryans came from outside the subcontinent or whether Aryan culture developed within India, matters little for our purposes here. Hinduism should be regarded as a development of at least 3,000 years of Aryan culture working within the Indian subcontinent according to the rule of ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti. The unifying force of this sublime verse is what has created the Hinduism of today.

Answer 4:Origins of Hinduism were laid down by an ancient institution of sages called Saptarshis, who were the founders of Hinduism.

Just as there has been a huge amount of migration in the last two centuries from all over the world to United States and other North American provinces, there was a time thousands of years ago, when huge and gigantic rivers like Saraswati were wetting Indian lands, India was the preferred choice of destination for migration. Huge number of tribes used to frequently migrate onto the Indian subcontinent in large numbers. Each incoming deity had its own tribal deity and the environment became highly polytheistic with every community of few hundred or thousand individuals having its own deity. Hinduism was the result of a well-formed organizational institution headed by Seven Sages, called Saptarshis, who aimed at arresting the excessive polytheism resulting from these migrations. These sages used certain scriptures called Vedas as a means to arrest polytheism and enforce monotheism.

If a new tribe entered into India and if they wanted their deity to be considered as a Hindu God recognized by the seven sages, they had to declare their deity as the visual manifestation of one of the gods mentioned in the Vedas - this was how the integration was done. Nobody would be forced to integrate their god or goddesses with the Vedic divinities, but once they settle in India, without such integration, their deity would at best be considered as pagan and would not be accorded the due respect by the devotional community. No person from any other tribe would ever bow before the nonintegrated divinity. And most importantly, the divinity is not considered to be recognized by the Saptarshis or seven sages, the elite sages who were considered as the god's manifestations on earth. And any Upanishads, Puranas, and all other cultural practices related to the Vedic deities would not be applicable to the nonintegrated divinity. Any festivals or celebrations as applicable to the Vedic deities would not be applicable to the nonintegrated divinity. Without all these benefits, the followers of the nonintegrated tribe would start getting a feeling of theirs being a pure pagan worship; they therefore would almost without fail consent to integrate their deity with the Vedic divinities. This was the way in which a large number of deities were integrated into the Vedic religion using the means of Vedas.

Hinduism is a religion that was founded to arrest the uncontrolled polytheism that arose out of excessive migration that used to frequently take place into the Indian subcontinent.

Answer 2

Answer 1:Hinduism has its origins in such remote past that it cannot be traced to any one individual. Some scholars believe that Hinduism must have existed even in circa 10000 B.C. and that the earliest of the Hindu scriptures - The Rig Veda - was composed well before 6500 B.C. The word "Hinduism" is not to be found anywhere in the scriptures, and the term "Hindu" was introduced by foreigners who referred to people living across the River Indus or Sindhu, in the north of India, around which the Vedic religion is believed to have originated. Answer 2:Some historians say that Hinduism had its roots over 3,500 years ago in a wave of migration that brought a pale skinned, Aryan people down from the northwest into the Indus Valley, now located mainly in India and Pakistan. From there they spread into the Ganges River plains and across India. Some experts say that the religious ideas of the migrants were based on ancient Iranian and Babylonian teachings. One thread common to many cultures and also found in Hinduism is a flood legend. Answer 3:

In terms of its religious development there are now two basic theories that attempt to explain how Hinduism first developed within India, and they both draw on the famous ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti verse for their effectiveness. One suggests that at some time towards the end of the Indus Valley Civilization (circa 1700 BCE) a group of nomadic people called the Aryans moved into northern India from the steppes of central Europe or even Asia Minor. This is called the "Indo-Aryan Migration Theory" and it was first posited after the relationship between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin was discovered along with other archaeological evidence that emerged in the late 18th century. According to this view, these Aryans mixed with the indigenous Dravidian and other peoples of the Indian subcontinent, and in time the Aryan religious stream combined with the indigenous streams and became what today we call Hinduism.

The other theory suggests that Hinduism emerged out of India itself. This is the "Out of India Theory" and it says that Aryan culture is a development from the Indus valley civilization and not one introduced by outside invaders or migrants. It says that the religious development of Hinduism has been wholly indigenous. It also suggests that the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin are the result of Aryan migrations in the opposite direction, out of India and into Europe. Aryan tribes from within India spread throughout Europe bringing their culture, language and religion. Passages from the Mahabharata and other Hindu texts are quoted in support of this theory.

Whether the Aryans came from outside the subcontinent or whether Aryan culture developed within India, matters little for our purposes here. Hinduism should be regarded as a development of at least 3,000 years of Aryan culture working within the Indian subcontinent according to the rule of ekam sat viprah bahudha vadanti. The unifying force of this sublime verse is what has created the Hinduism of today.

Answer 4:Origins of Hinduism were laid down by an ancient institution of sages called Saptarshis, who were the founders of Hinduism.

Just as there has been a huge amount of migration in the last two centuries from all over the world to United States and other North American provinces, there was a time thousands of years ago, when huge and gigantic rivers like Saraswati were wetting Indian lands, India was the preferred choice of destination for migration. Huge number of tribes used to frequently migrate onto the Indian subcontinent in large numbers. Each incoming deity had its own tribal deity and the environment became highly polytheistic with every community of few hundred or thousand individuals having its own deity. Hinduism was the result of a well-formed organizational institution headed by Seven Sages, called Saptarshis, who aimed at arresting the excessive polytheism resulting from these migrations. These sages used certain scriptures called Vedas as a means to arrest polytheism and enforce monotheism.

If a new tribe entered into India and if they wanted their deity to be considered as a Hindu God recognized by the seven sages, they had to declare their deity as the visual manifestation of one of the gods mentioned in the Vedas - this was how the integration was done. Nobody would be forced to integrate their god or goddesses with the Vedic divinities, but once they settle in India, without such integration, their deity would at best be considered as pagan and would not be accorded the due respect by the devotional community. No person from any other tribe would ever bow before the nonintegrated divinity. And most importantly, the divinity is not considered to be recognized by the Saptarshis or seven sages, the elite sages who were considered as the god's manifestations on earth. And any Upanishads, Puranas, and all other cultural practices related to the Vedic deities would not be applicable to the nonintegrated divinity. Any festivals or celebrations as applicable to the Vedic deities would not be applicable to the nonintegrated divinity. Without all these benefits, the followers of the nonintegrated tribe would start getting a feeling of theirs being a pure pagan worship; they therefore would almost without fail consent to integrate their deity with the Vedic divinities. This was the way in which a large number of deities were integrated into the Vedic religion using the means of Vedas.

Hinduism is a religion that was founded to arrest the uncontrolled polytheism that arose out of excessive migration that used to frequently take place into the Indian subcontinent.