HINDUISM IS SO ANCIENT THAT IT IS HARD TO SAY EXACTLY WHEN THE EARLIEST FORM OF HINDUISM ORIGINATED. IT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM THE PROTO-INDO-IRANIAN CULTURE OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA, SOMETIME IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BCE. THE DATE WENT BACK AS FAR AS 2000 BCE.
HOW WAS THE WORLD CREATED ACCORDING TO HINDUISM?
HINDUS BELIEVE UNIVERSE WAS NEVER CREATED. BUT IT IS IN A PROCESS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION.