Emperor Asoka speaks
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the circumstances, Emperor Asoka referring to the Stupa of Kanakamuni Buddha,
that “of the numerous Buddhas whose names are recorded in the Buddhist books as
predecessors of Gautama Buddha it would seem therefore historically probable
that a real basis of fact underlies the name and personality of Kanakamuni as
well as of Gautama Buddha’s successor Kassapa Buddha (page 56, Lal Mani Joshi
“Brahmanism Buddhism and Hinduism, Kandy, Sri Lanka and Nepal’s inscriptions of
Asoka).
Buddhism was kidnapped by the Hindu Politics in South Asia:
Buddhism
invites anyone to come and see (Ehipassiko) for himself and permits him to
accept only those facts which agree with reason, logic and truth. It encourages
the seeker of a new way to discard heresies, blind faith, miracles and magic.
So scientist Albert Einstein expressed
this appreciation of Buddhism, “The religion of the future will be a cosmic
religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology.
Covering both the natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious
sense arising from the experiences of all things, natural and spiritual, as a
meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.” The
Mahavastu Avadana records the following relevant lines addressed to Bodhisattva
Gautama Siddhartha:
“Tena gato Krakuchando Konakamuni ca KassapoEtena tvam gaccha vira adya Buddho bhavissasi”
it means former Buddhas called Krakuchchanda, Kanakamuni, Kasyapa and Siddhartha is being advised to go along that path so as to become a Buddha soon.
From Mohenjodaro & Harappa to Lumbini & Buddhagaya:
What the history taught in ancient India?
There had a conspiracy of Vedic civilization relating to pre – Ariyan or pre –
Vedic Buddhism in Indus civilization of Mohenjodaro and Harappa. Hindu scholars
have been written thousand of books in claiming that Gautama Buddha belongs to
them. No ancient Hindu religious books mentioned Emperor Asoka and his rock
edicts on Buddhism. Brahmanism and Vedic culture were started to destroy
Buddhism 1500 years B.C. in Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The Rig Veda reports,
“Lord Krishna’s first generation came from abroad (1/36/8). According to the Bhagavat (10/24/23) Lord Krisna
prohibited the Indra worship relating to interests of power between both of
them.
Emperor Asoka (B.C. 2300) discovered ancient
places of Kanakamuni Buddha and Kassapa Buddha in Nepal as archaeological discoveries (statue
of Bodhisattva king, several Bodhi Trees & etc.) in ancient cities of Mohenjodaro
(on river Indus in Sindh) and Harappa (on one of its tributaries in Punjab)
indicated that pre-historical Buddhist civilization in South Asia (India)
existed about 3000 B.C.
Settlement of the Indo-Aryans:
The
holy Rigveda contains 1,028 hymns with, 10,600 verses which are collected in ten
books. Two hymns of the Rigveda (VII, 18 and 33) report a “Battle of Ten
Kings.” Vedic hymns praise the chief god of the Aryans, king Indra, as a
breaker of the forts (purandara). In 1786 Sir William Jones, the founder of the
Asiatic Society of Calcutta, discovered the close relationship between
Sanskrit, the language of these Indo-Aryans, and Greek, Latin, German and
Celtic languages. Vedic king Indra destroyed the pre-historical Buddhist
heritage of the six Buddhas in South Asian cultures: (1) Vipassi Buddha (2) Sikhi Buddha (3) Vessabho Buddha (4)
Kakusandha Buddha (5) Konagamana Buddha and (6) Kassapa Buddha, mentioned in
the Buddhist Text of Digha and the Samyutta Nikayas as immediate predecessors
of Gautama Buddha were real human Sramanic great teachers whose historicity has
been reflected in myths and legends so universally found in the Buddhist
literature, Jataka story, sculpture, architecture, Ajanta Caves and Art of
Asia.
Rigveda reports Vedic king Indra tookover Mohenjodaro and Harappa:
All
the Vedic ancient texts are quite ignored about the numerous Buddhas whose
names are recorded in the Buddhist texts ( Buddhavamsa, Buddha charita, Lalita
Vistra and several discourses of the Buddha).
Relating to the Lord Buddha’s universal theory of dependent origination or ‘Paticca samuppada’ today’s students may
discover the conventional (only lokiya, not the spiritual or super-natural)
similarities in the findings of Galileo and Copernicus.
Hundreds
of Buddhist inscriptions were found, they have been satisfactorily gave an
overall pre-historic pictures of ancient Buddhism, their languages, cultures
and custom etc. None of these scholars seems to have taken into account the
Buddhist tradition of six ‘Past Buddhas’ who are believed to have flourished before
Sakyamuni Buddha in pre-historic ages. Dr. H. Zimmer observes that, “following
long history of rigid resistance, the exclusive and esoteric Brahman mind of
the Aryan invaders opened up, at least, and received suggestions and influences
from the native civilization. Later many made their fertile fields, they
brought the rivers. Plants spread over the deserts, waters filled the Hallows
(IV, 33).”