Talk:Varaha Upanishad

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Hello. I am very curious about when Varaha Upanishad was written. What do we know of its origin? Perhaps it is a collection of several writings spread across a long period of time and by several authors. What do we know about it? Have it been investigated? Perhaps there are different opinions. RhinoMind (talk) 20:25, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you Nvvchar for adding some information on the origin of Varaha Upanishad. The major Upanishads dates to 900-600 BCE and is about 3,000 years old, so this is clearly a very recent text. I am curious who has categorized it as part of the Vedas then? I know that most of the recent Upanishads are only considered part of the Vedas by certain religious authorities and not everybody. They are therefore often referred to as "sectarian Upanishads" in scholarly terms. Not to discredit them, but to explain that they are only considered part of the Vedas by some groups and not everyone. That will need to be explained in the article. (one source: "The Upanishads", Edited by Tom Griffith et.al. (2000), Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)


 * I tried to follow the ref-link for the dating to the 13th-16th century, but page 8 was not available for on-line viewing, so whoever needs confirmation will need a real copy of that book. That being said, I will also have to state that the book (ref) is written from a certain religious/sectarian point of view and with a certain intent, so I suggest we keep looking for a more general, neutral and scholarly source, when trying to date this particular text.


 * RhinoMind (talk) 02:21, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

The Ten Commandments
There is a broken and disconnected sentence about the Ten Commandments.

I have read up on the ref and on page 62 it states that the ten Yamas listed and described in Varaha Upanishad clearly matches the Ten Commandments. Perhaps the article needs to explain that, as the Yamas are not touched as it is now.

Perhaps this is only one authors opinion? Has it been investigated if the Ten Commandments actually stems from the Yamas? Perhaps it is just a coincidence, perhaps it has not been investigated further? What is known about it? RhinoMind (talk) 20:31, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Just a comment to my own post. With the dating information we now have, VU does clearly not predate the Bible. It can not be a source for the Ten Commandments, and any associations with them, must be of a more recent nature. It would still be interesting to include some information on it, but it has less importance now. RhinoMind (talk) 17:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC)