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18 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Bhatt wants to convey is that though in a sense every new Kalpa has a new series of Vedas the same old Vedas are reproduced by Brahma from his memory. That is why he says the Vedas are Sanatan i.e., eternally pre-existing.
What Kalluka Bhatt says is that the Vedas are reproduced from memory. The real question is who made them and not who reproduced them. Even if one accepts the theory of reproduction at the beginning of each Kalpa the question still remains who made the Vedas when the first Kalpa began. The Vedas could not have come into being ex-nihilo. They must have a beginning though they may have no end. Why don’t the Brahmins say openly? Why this circumlocution?
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