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Here come interpreters of Vedas with quick google searches and conclusions.Vedics used to cremate their dead on funeral pyre. Burying the dead has nothing to do with Vedic civilization.
Now, to show some link to the burials with Ponga Pandats, they started searching Vedas for some reference to dead body burial rituals. There is no reference to Dead body burial in Vedas.
There is not proof of Vedas older than 553 years to exact. Buddhist texts and inscriptions are way older than Rig Veda.
There are 30 manuscripts of Rigveda at the Institute, collected from different parts of India like Kashmir, Gujarat, the then Rajaputana, Central Provinces etc. They are written in Sharada, Devanagari and Devanagari with Prishthamatra and the material used for writing is birch bark as well as paper. The oldest of these manuscripts is dated 1464 A. D.
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/nomination_forms/india_rigveda.pdf
Vedic used different methods to dispose of dead bodies depending on various factors. Cremation is the most commonly used form of Burial, a Child for example is not cremated but as per Vedic tradition given water burial, a Saint is simply buried and not cremated.
I have read those 'only 500 years' old BS in the last conversation in another thread, thought to ignore the idiocy in it. Because I will have to write two-page essays on some well known, historically verifiable facts because some Rando Muslim believe his book is older than Vedas.
No, the age of Vedas were calculated based on the historic events, and the kingdoms that are mentioned in those texts. You base your theory on manuscripts (your own Abrahamic texts were written much, much later. Not gonna show you the mirror now), which would mean Buddha was born when Ashoka was king, but records show Buddha was born before Ashoka.
Take, for example, Aryabhatta who born in around 476 AD describes his date of birth by counting the Kali Yuga described in Mahabharata. Now, if you want to discredit Arybhatta you need to discredit astronomy which positioned stars whose relative position was used to determine the specific time of his era or the Persians who studied Aryabhattiya. Mahabharata texts talk about Brahma, whose four faces representing each 4 Vedas he recited.
Also, the reason why Vedas were not written, is because Vedas were not textual they are an oral tradition, Vedas were composed in a way that writing it would not actually meet the purpose and was composed when writing was non-existent, that's the pre-Buddha period.
Guess that's enough for now. Come back with such theories, I will give more evidence.