Re: [nukkad] Verdict is Yours : 33

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

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'' It is typical of all Hindu scholars. Everyone of them
 is most reluctant to admit that the Bhagwad Gita is
 anyway influenced by Buddhism and is ever ready
 to deny that the Gita has borrowed anything from
 Buddhism. It is the attitude of Prof. Radhakrishnan
 and also of B.G.Tilak. Where there is any similarity
 in thought between the Bhagwad Gita and Buddhism
 too strong and too close to be denied, the argument
 is that it is borrowed from Upnishads. It is typical
 of the mean mentality not to allow any credit to
 Buddhism on any account.''



--- Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, social reformist, scholar,
    educationist, economist, leader of the neglected
    castes in India, chief architect of the draft of
    democratic constitution of modern India.

I quote, verdict is yours.

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MY VERDICT--

1. Ambedkar was a scholar alright, and an expert in Constitutional law.
Whether he was a scholar of scriptures, too, is probably questionable.

2. His utterances seem to be influenced by a bitterness towards Hinduism,
because of whose caste system he suffered personally.

3. He was not only a scholar, but, also, a politician of sorts. He was
probably trying to create a Dalit constituency for himself, now fully
exploited by the likes of Mayawati, LL.B.

4. The above factors probably combined to cause him to make the above-quoted
 statement against the well known fact [now even proven by impeccable,
published, scientific studies] that Gita/Krishna ante-dated Buddha by about
2500 years. His statement becomes meaningless/knowingly false/absurd in view
of the above.

M C Gupta

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