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Author Message   Rijukratu Kurra Bewarse Username: Rijukratu Post Number: 1310 Registered: 05-2007 Posted From: 117.216.181.128 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 11:55 pm:    bro, what is your point? is it that sanatana dharma is older than guptas? no mainstream historian disagrees with that…and temples cant be counted as proof of the existence or non-existence of sanatana dharma as it evolved through different phases, some of the phases didnt involve temples like now… dating of vedas is a controversial issue and a hotly debated topic among historians... depending on their ideologies, political perspectives, vested interests some historians date them to the period of 1500BC to 700BC and some atleast a 1000 years earlier...this is full of politics... mee post lo konni specific points meeda edo cheppadalchukunna to bring more clarity on the existence of temples before guptas... 1. sanatana dharma evolved from animism of early-IVC period and vedic period into a religion based on the foundations of philosophy in upanishadic period and then into puranic hinduism of gupta's period(from 3rd century ad)... 2. as we cant decipher the script of IVC, we can only make conclusions deduced from the archaeological remains...some buildings were found in the cities like mohenjodaro, harappa, kalibangan etc where some idols were found...these buildings are identified as temples by some historians based on some other evidences... 3. vedic hinduism(after IVC) was based on rituals and sacrifices, chanting mantras, worshipping gods who are actually personification of nature...but many terracotta figurines which hisotorians identify as belonging to feritility cults are found belonging to this period...this implies that idols were worshipped... 4. vedic people lived in wattle and daub houses...they might have used the same wattle and daub structures for housing the idols of fertility cults which makes them temples...these wattle and daub structures are perishable and so archaeologists couldnt find them... only if the people use a long lasting medium for building temples, those remains can be found by archaelogists...only in 2nd century BC, people started building temples with bricks...we find jandial temple in taxila belonging to this period...so in short, temple architecture too evolved from temporary wattle and daub structures to permanent stone structures...