Sanatana Dharma - Aka Hinduism (3rd Bin)

[Husky]

Came across a supporting statement for this claim made in post 142 above:



[quote name='Husky' date='28 June 2014 - 10:24 PM' timestamp='1403974017' post='117283']

Further, [color="#0000FF"]MBh IS the Vedam[/color] and the Vedam alone - in different but equivalent form - and since ancient times advertised as being so. Making MBh an embodiment of the Hindu Gods and the Vedam (and there's already an equivalence between the Hindu Gods and the Vedam as being embodiments of each other.)[/quote]Ramayanam(=Gayatri Mantram) is the Vedam too, obviously.



Typing out something that the previous Kanchi Sankaracharya (Chandrashekharendra Saraswati Swamigal) wrote. Note that in the following, he is simply repeating well-known established Hindoo tradition:

Mahaabharata is called the 'Panchamo Veda', the fifth Veda.

As regards Ramayana, it is said that when the Purusha who can be known only by the Vedas took birth as Dasaratha's son, the Vedas also appeared as Valmiki's child in the form of Ramayana.

"hrIshcha te lakShmIshcha patnyau" or something (YV, puruSha sooktam - je crois)



MBh is further also plainly stated to be the Vedam, IIRC.