How old are the Vedas
Vedas were passed from one generation of saints to others through vocal means-mostly described as Shruti. Vedic and western scholars have made different claims about the origin and time of the creation of the scriptures. Hindu scholars believe the text were created at the time of the creation of human beings.
Vedic Literature
Vedic literature was carried from one generation of scholars to others. This led to the growth of other spiritual movements which included Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Vedanga and the Sutra literature origin has been attributed to 600 to 200 BC.
Vedic system
Most western scholars initially thought the Vedic system was some kind of tribal system talking about epics. One of the writers clayton, who wrote “The Rgveda and Vedic Religion”, said that no dates can be assigned to the origin of the hymns. He also said there was no precise way adopted by researchers to tell when the scriptures were written.
Ved Vyasa is Acknowledged
Vedas are believed to be eternal. In Sanskrit the words Anadi-‘without a start’ and Nitya- ‘eternal’ is used for vedas. The scriptures are assumed to be 7000 years old but other researches claim Vedas are older than 25000 BC. Astrologers claim the precession of equinoxes which includes 27 nakshatras where each nakshatra takes 960 years. The calculation by Vedic astrologers find the texts are older than 23920 years BCE.
