04-06-2007, 09:43 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Apr 3 2007, 12:19 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Apr 3 2007, 12:19 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ancient Hindu Tamils eventually received Vedic knowledge which had passed South from the Northwest where the Vedas were composed. (All other areas of India only got the Vedas from the NW anyway, so in this matter, time is all that separates the inundation of various regions of India with the Vedas). Later, much after the incorporation of Vedic knowledge, Tamils started writing the literature down. By this time the Vedic Hindu elements had long become part of the older Hindu traditions that Tamil Nadu (and the rest of India) already had.
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doesn't that imply that parts of india outside the north west part had religions different from vedic hinduism, and converted to hinduism only after vedic knowlegde reached their part of the subcontinent.
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doesn't that imply that parts of india outside the north west part had religions different from vedic hinduism, and converted to hinduism only after vedic knowlegde reached their part of the subcontinent.