"‘Hindu’ is not found in the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, which are written in Sanskrit"
"We thus have an unusual

situation in which one becomes a Hindu by accepting the authority of

scriptures that do not recognise the word ‘Hindu’."

" The earliest canonical expressions of krsna-bhakti, devotion to Krsna, are

found in such literatures as the Mahabharata and its appendixed Hari-vamsa,

and in the Visnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana. The foundational scripture

for devotion to the Lord as King Rama is Valmiki’s Ramayana. In none of

these texts do we find the word hindu. The language of all of the above

texts is Sanskrit. Even as late as the tenth and eleventh centuries of the common era, we find

this term entirely absent in essential Vaisnava devotional, philosophical

and apologetic writings"
"As in earlier Sanskrit texts, so in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sanskrit texts of

the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries we do not find the word ‘Hindu.’"


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