Bhagavad-Gita (When was it written?)

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I need to know when, approximately, "Songs of the Lord" were written.
100 B.C., 200 B.C. or 400 B.C.? Could you, please, help me?

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I read that archeologists found a pillar with an inscription refering
to Lord Krishna dated 108 B.C.E.

Of course , that is no indication of date of writing of Mahabharat, of
which the Gita is a section.

I suggest using altavista.com search engine or hotbot.com or lycos.com

.... there are time lines I have found on internet dating when Gita was
written and Vedas, and Zoroastrian Avestas, etc etc.... estimates
vary widely....

Best of luck...

(oh.. and ps.... Qur'an is embodiment of all evil, Allah is a demon
disguised as God, and Muhammed is the most depraved man ever to defile
the earth with his footsteps.... just thought Id mention those rather
obvious facts)...

Cheers...

[Mark McHugh]

Hi,

in A.L.Basham's "The Sacred Cow - The Evolution of Classical Hinduism",
he states that the Mahabharata was composed over a long period of time.
The suggests that the main story of the epic (the story of the
Mahabharata war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas) was composed
around 500 BCE though the work only came into it's final form as late as
500 CE.

The Gita itself (according to Basham) has three different composers
(apparently based on an analysis of the shloka form and the theology.
The oldest and shortest being the basic narrative that fits into the
Mahabharata story (Arjuna's hesitation and Krishna's advice regarding
the justification for war) Chapter 1 and chapter 2 down to verse 38. The
rest of chapter 2, plus 3,5,6,8,13,14 (v 7 - 25),16,17,18 (v 1 - 53), an
impersonal cosmic theology of Brahman (with very few mentions of Krishna
as god), and the rest, theistic Bhakti with Krishna as the supreme lord.

Stepping away from the mundane, according to tradition, the Mahabharata
war took place around 3000 BCE and the Gita was spoken by Krishna to
Arjuna at that time, however other sources indicate that Krishna lived
around 650 BCE.

Chandanji.