The Myth of Monolithic Hindu Scriptures, especially the Puranas

The impression of Bhagavad Gita (BG) being a monolithic text is being continuously fostered by repeated Brahminical and Hindutva spin-doctoring. The freethinkers' website Nirmukta.com in general and articles by Dr. K.P.S Kamath in paricular have done an excellent job of exposing this falsehood in his series on BG 

 But this is not restricted to BG alone. The same intellectual deception has been employed with the quartet of Vedas, Upanishads, epics (Ramamyana & Mahabharata) and the Hindu Puranas which are figuratively  termed as different pearls of Vedantic wisdom strung together on the 'spiritual' string of the quest for the Brahman

Of course many skeptics and historians know that all this is bunk and that all these scriptures are totally disconnected from each other. 

The lie that is spread by the Hindu propaganda mill is that Upanishads are philosophical footnotes to the essential truths of the Vedas, while the epics and the Puranas illustrate the same truths by narrative and fable.

From my readings of the Rig Veda translations, I could not find any earth-shattering existential truths other than the ambiguous and ambivalent creation hymns. Even the creation hymns are more in the nature of meta-physical speculation about phenomenon rather than any meaningful exposition on the conduct of life and wisdom.

But doubtless, the Puranas take top honors in terms of being the most remote in terms of philosophic pretenses about knowledge and wisdom of the metaphysical variety. 

The Puranas are really nothing but an anthology or collection of absurd and nonsensical fantasies or fairy tales about the motley crowd of supernatural creatures, their triumphs and travails and their interaction with terrestrial beings. These texts are closer to the primitive Biblical and Hebrew texts in their narrative style and their total contempt for logic and reason and it may not be out of place to suspect them of plagiarizing Greek or Trojan mythology in parts. It is quite stretch of even the most liberal interpretation to posit that Puranas can share any alignment or continuity with the Vedas or Upanishads

How can any observer or student of the Puranas miss the obvious fact that mighty gods of the Rig Veda like Indra, Agni, Varuna-Mitra, Vayu and Surya have been demoted and denigrated in the Puranic hierarchy. They have been reduced to subservience of the later Vaishnavite and Shaivite gods and worse. 

Indra who is the mightiest Rig Vedic god is disgraced and shown as a wimp in most Puranic stories. His ultimate humiliation is of course in the Ramayana, where he is made to sleep with Ahalya and being cursed by a lowly sage Gautama to have a 1000 vulvas on his body. 

The fate of Agni, without whom no Rig Vedic ritual is complete is even worse where he is reduced in the Skanda Purana to be a petty postman or courier carrying some burning miracle seeds to impregnate Parvati who will deliver Kartikeya. 

Varuna, Surya and Vayu are all made to suffer the ignominy of being illegitimate fathers in Mahabharata through Kunti's use of a procreation boon. 

This list of utter absurdities can go on and on and is only the tip of the iceberg of the monumental nonsense that the Puranas are.

We won't  even get started on Srimad Bhagavatam now, for that fountain-head of Puranic nonsense requires a whole chapter of detailed analysis