IN THE HINDU SCRIPTURES DR. VED PRAKASH UPADDHAY MUHAMMAD in the Hindu Scriptures Dr. Ved Prakash Upaddhay Translated into Bengali by Prof. Ashit Kumar Bandhopaddhay Translated into English by Muhammad Alamgir Published ~ ------A.S. NOORDEEN ------ moy. © All Rights Re$erved. No part of ttJ~ book be used for publicati6n without the written permission of the copyright holder, application tor which·'should be addressed to the author c/o the publisher. '··,· "., ' .. ,I Muhammad in the Hindu Scriptures By Or. Ved Prakash Upaddhay ISBN 81-7231-746-8 Edition 2011 Printed after obtaining permission to Publish, Sale, Distributer from A.S. NOORDEEN P.O. 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GOURI BHATTACHARYA PROFESSOR, RABINDRA BHARATI UNIVERSITY ***** TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI INTO ENGUSH BY MUHAMMAD ALAMGIR In Memory of my Shaykh Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari may his soul rest in eternal peace TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface to The Third edition ............................................................. ix Foreword ................................................................................................ xi Introduction ...................................................................................... xiii Bengali Tran:slator's- Introduction ............................................... xiv Book One Narashangsa and the Antim Rishi Chapter One. The Meaning of Narashangsa ........................................................ 3 Chapter Two. Qua)ities of Narashangsa .................................................................. 7 ':thapter Three. Narashangsa as Muhammad ........................................................... 11 Chapter Four. Narashangsa in the non-Indian Scriptures ................................... 18 Chapter Five. That Sage ............................................................................................. 27 Chapter Six. An tim Buddha-Maitreya ............................................................... 36 Book Two Kalki Avatar and Muhammad Chapter One. Prologue ............................................................................................... 45 Chapter 1Wo. The Meaning of •A vatar' ........................................•.........••.............. 50 vi MUHAMMAD IN THI! HINDU SCRIPTURES Chapter Three. Conditions when an Avatar appears .............................................. 52 Chapter Four. Conditions when the Final Avatar appears .................................. 53 Chapter Five. Characteristics of the Final Avatar ··································-············· 54 Chapter Six. The Age in which the Final Avatar will appear ........................... 56 Chapter Seven. The Place where the Final Avatar will appear ............................. 58 Chapter Eight. The Age of Social and Religious Decline ..................................... 60 Chapter Nine. Muhammad as the Final Avatar ...................................................... 63 Chapter Ten. Teachings from the Qur'a n and the Vedas ................................... 72 Chapter Eleven. Conclusion .......................................................................................... 74 Chapter Twelve. Saraswata Vedanta Publication Society ........................................ 77 Book Three Religious Unity in the Light of the Vedas Chapter One. Fore_word .............................................................................................. 81 Chapter Two. Unity of God·;::, (Monotheism) ......................................................... 83 Chapter Three. Proof ofthe Prophets in the Puranas ............................................. 85 Chapter Four. Jesus Christ in the Puranas .............................................................. 88 vii CONTENTS Chapter Five. Muhammad in the Bhavishwa Purana .......................................... 89 Chapter Six. Universal Religion & Conclusion .................................................. 91 Book Four Muhammad in the Vedas and the Mahabharata Chapter One. Muhammad in the Atharvaveda .........................................•........... 95 Chapter Two. Muhammad in the Samveda ......................................................... 106 Chapter Three. Muhammad in the Yajurveda ........................................................ 110 Chapter Four. Muhammad in the Rigveda ........................................................... 121 Chapter Five. Muhammad in the Mahabharata ......................................•........... 132 Appendix-Islam in the eyes of the non-Muslims ...................... 141 Epilogue .................................................................................•............ 144 '· Preface to the THIRD edition Ti is book is actually a collection of fou:r books. The first three of hese books were originally written in Hindi as a Historical Research by Dr. Ved Prakash Upaddhay of the Prayag University of India. The three books are :. . 1. Narashangsa and the Antim Rishi; 2. Kalki Avatar and Muhammad; and 3. Religious Unity in the Light of the Vedas Prof. Ashit Kumar Bandhopaddhay of the Sanskrit Academy, Howrah, India, translated the above three books into Bengali, and called the combined work as 'Muhammad in the Vedas and the Puranas':·He has also added the following with his translation: 1. Muhammad in the Atharvaveda; 2. Muhammad in the Samveda; 3. Muhammad in the Yajurveda; 4. Muhammad in the Rigveda; 5. Muhammad in the Mahabharata; and an 6. Appendix - Islam in the eyes of the non-Muslims. In the present English translatiot:l, I have combined the first five of the above as Book Four, and called it 'Muhammad in the Vedas and the Mahabharata'. There are many sacred literatures in the Hindu religion which are regarded by the Hindus as their Scriptures. The foremost and the oldest among them are the Vedas, literally 'Books of Knowledge'. They are: 1. Rigveda, the Veda of worship, it is the oldest of all the Vedas; 2. Yajurveda the Sacrificial Veda; 3. Samveda, Veda of chants; and 4. Atharvaveda, the Last Veda.