voiceofSouth India

Sister-in-law, during the time of Ashoka the Great, even the word ‘Hindu’ did not exist. So how can there be a religion called Hinduism? Tell me, in which book is it written that Chandragupta Maurya was a Hindu I will give you 10 million if you can prove it.

Muhammad is dead. Krishna is dead. Buddah is dead. Confucius is dead. Jesus Christ is alive. That is the truth that has remade the world. Glory to God.

Ok, I'll be patient and educate you. We know that Chandragupta Maurya commissioned golden images of the Hindu divine family (Shiva, Parvati, Skanda, Vishakha) because Patanjali (2nd c. BCE) specifically refers to it while discussing the proper grammar to refer to such images as what the Mauryas sold in a discussion about proper suffixes from Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī (4th-c. BCE). And the 2000 yr old Buddhist text Lalita Vistara clearly describes Gautama Buddha's father King Shuddhodhana taking him to worship at a Hindu temple in Kapilavastu which had Murtis of bhagwans Shiva, Skanda, Narayana, Kubera, Chandra, Surya, Indra, Brahma etc. etc. which existed before Buddha was even born. In typical Buddhist historiographical fashion it also claims all the Hindu gods "fell at the feet of Boddhisatva" 7th c, Chinese Buddhist traveller monk Xuanzang also describes it as a temple of Ishvara (ancient name for Shiva) So Buddhist sources themselves confirm that all the Hindu gods (especially Shiva & Vedic gods) were already being worshipped in Hindu temples by Buddha's own father & family. Got the evidence now? Now go tell your buddy to eat his $10 Million. I don't need it - but you all will - to pay for the huge amount of copium & burnol that you need to buy now.