Originally posted by: naq5
a version devoid of divinity would be interesting. I would like tv to explore that too. but i guess it wont happen
And since when did people from south start believing in krishna as god. if in earlier time they were actually shiva worshipers.
Sangam isn't Mahabharata..
Sangam literature is a collection of beautiful poems and some prose. It's about their kings, their valour, the society of those.
Us book me Mahabharata k bahut se references n direct mentions hai, Sangam literature was written around the same time as the earliest Mahabharata versions that we have. I mentioned that example because if Mahabharata was a fiction in Sanskrit how could it mentioned in a Tamil text at the same time it was written
Krishna would have been started worshipped around 4-5th centuryBCE in North India, because Heralcles Indian god as mentioned by Greeks matches Krishnaji's description, but in south it wouldn't have started before 5th century AD. You would hardly find old Vishnu temples there, as Vaishanavite culture flourished their, local gods like Tirupati became His form