How old are the Vedas?

[Courtesy: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute]

Copy of the oldest available Rig Veda, written in the year1464, is registered at the UNESCO website. It was submitted for registration by India in 2007 and accepted. The two nominators were:

(1) Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Mission Director), National Mission for Manuscripts,

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road,

New Delhi 110 001

India

AND

(2) Dr M. G. Dhadphale (Retired Professor of Sanskrit and Pali, Fergusson College, Pune)

Honorary Secretary,

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

Following is from the UNESCO website

There is no proof of the Rig Veda being written thousands of years earlier as is often claimed. It mentions the Buddhist Stupas, pointing to the fact that this version of the Rig Veda must have been compiled sometime after the Buddha and before (or in) 1464.

Following is courtesy of Historian Rajendra Prasad Singh Ji

Author: Shekhar Bodhakar