Editing Ved Prakash Upadhyay

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| name = Ved Prakash Upadhyay
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1947|02|07}}
| birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| citizenship = [[India]]n
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| known_for = Kalki Avatar and Muhammad
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| workplaces = [[Sanskrit Language]], [[Hinduism]], [[Veda]]
| notable_works = Kalki Avatar and Muhammad
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'''Ved Prakash Upadhyay''' or '''Ved Prakash Upaddhay''' (born 7 February 1947) is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit language and [[Hinduism]], author, professor and social activist.<ref name="a" /> He is the author of many books on [[Sanskrit literature]] and [[Hinduism]].<ref name="a" /> He is mostly known for his controversial work ''[[Kalki Avatar and Muhammad]]'',<ref name="kalki">{{cite book |last1=Srivastava |first1=Ram Pal |title=अवतारवाद - एक नई दृष्टि |publisher=Sankalp Publication |isbn=978-93-91173-57-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdXKEAAAQBAJ&dq=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF&pg=PA192 |page=192  |language=hi}}</ref> which says that there are [[Hindu–Islamic relations#Similarities|references to Muhammad as Kalki]] in some Hindu scriptures.

==Early life and career==
Upadhyay was born on 2 February 1947 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in British India.<ref name=a/> His father was [[Saryupareen Brahmin|Saryuparin]] Vedic scholar Pt.Shriramjeevan Upadhyay.<ref name=a/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhartiya |first1=Bhawanilal |title=Ārya lekhaka kośa: Āryasamāja tathā r̥shi Dayānanda vishayaka lekhana se juṛe sahastrādhika lekhakoṃ ke jīvana evaṃ kāryavr̥tta kā vistr̥ta vivaraṇa |date=1991 |publisher=Dayānanda Adhyayana Saṃsthāna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szoWAAAAIAAJ&q=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF |accessdate=21 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref> He is a former professor of [[Panjab University|Punjab University]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Raj |title=A critical and comparative study of Dattakamimamsa of Nanda Pandita and Dattakacandrika of Raghumani Vidyabhusana |date=31 December 1984 |publisher=Shodhganga@INFLIBNET |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/bitstream/10603/107613/2/02_certificate.pdf |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>

==Reception==
In 2017, he received the Sanskrit Sahitya Alangkar Award from the Haryana Sanskrit Academy.<ref>{{cite news |title=डा वेद प्रकाश उपाध्याय और डा जगदीश प्रसाद सेमवाल को संस्कृत साहित्य अलंकार सम्मान - Ved Prakash Upadhyay and Jagdish Prasad Semwal award for Sanskrit literature |url=https://www.jagran.com/haryana/panchkula-ved-prakash-upadhyay-and-jagdish-prasad-semwal-award-for-sanskrit-literature-21587444.html |accessdate=21 July 2023 |work=[[Dainik Jagran]] |date=24 April 2021}}</ref> In 2017, he received the Sahitya Ratna Padak from the [[:pa:ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਭਾਗ ਪੰਜਾਬ|Punjabi Language Department]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Sahitya Ratna Awards announced |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/sahitya-ratna-awards-announced-179575 |accessdate=21 July 2023 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)]] |date=4 December 2020}}</ref> and in 2019 he received the [[Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman|President's Award of Certificate of Honour]] of India 2018 for his contribution to Sanskrit language.<ref name=k>{{cite news|url=https://m.khaskhabar.com/amp/news/news-dr-ved-prakash-upadhyay-gets-president-award-2018-news-hindi-1-335601-KKN.html?PageSpeed=off|title=डॉ वेद प्रकाश उपाध्याय को मिलेगा राष्ट्रपति सम्मान-2018|date=20 August 2018|work=khaskhabar|accessdate=10 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=a>{{cite news|url=http://aggarjanpatrika.com/news/6248-डॉ-वेद-प्रकाश-उपाध्याय-को-राष्टऊपति-सम्मान.aspx|title=डॉ. वेद प्रकाश उपाध्याय को राष्टऊपति सम्मान|date=9 April 2019|work=aggarjanpatrika.com|accessdate=10 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Presidential Awards Scheme |url=https://www.sanskrit.nic.in/schemes/presidential_awards.php#2019 |website=[[Central Sanskrit University]] |accessdate=21 July 2023}}</ref> Upadhyay was also honored with the UGC Senior Fellowship, Shastrachudamani. Furthermore, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, appointed him as the President of Adarsh Sanskrit Sanstha in Himachal Pradesh.

==Selected works==
===Kalki Avatar and Muhammad===

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Upadhyay's most notable work was ''Kalki Avatar and Muhammad''<ref name="af">{{cite book |last1=Malik |first1=Dr Ahmad |author2-link=Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi |last2= Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi |first2=Afrasiab |title=END TIMES (What could happen in the world tomorrow) |date=1 January 2022 |publisher=(Center for Global and Strategic Studies, Islamabad) |pages=13, 274, 275|isbn=9789699837142 |url=https://www.academia.edu/74441913 |access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref><ref name=Ab>{{cite journal |last1=الحافي |first1=د عمر |last2=البصول |first2=السيد علي |title=البشارات بنبؤة محمد في الكتب الهندوسية المقدسة |journal=The Jordanian Journal of Islamic Studies |date=24 June 2010 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=2, 12 |url=http://repository.aabu.edu.jo/jspui/handle/123456789/363 |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=[[Al al-Bayt University]]}}</ref> which was published in 1969 by Saraswat Vedanta Prakash Sangghha of Allahabad.<ref>{{cite book |title=The common bases for Hindu-Muslim dialogue|author= Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated from Urdu by [[Yoginder Sikand]]) |date=5 May 2010 |url=http://twocircles.net/2010may04/common_bases_hindu_muslim_dialogue.html |publisher=[[Twocircles.net]]|access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Prophet Muhammad in Hindu Scriptures |url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/01-15Mar05-Print-Edition/011503200567.htm |access-date=1 September 2022 |work=[[Milli Gazette]]}}</ref> The book is thought to be a partial adaption of the book [[Abdul Haq Vidyarthi|Muhammad in World Scriptures]] (originally "Mithaq an-Nabiyeen", covenant of the prophets) by [[Ahmadiya]] scholar [[Abdul Haq Vidyarthi]]. Originally written in Hindi language, in this book, he discussed his claim of the mention of Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]] as the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] [[avatar]] of [[Kalki]] in the [[Hindu scriptures]] ([[Kalki Purana]], [[Vedas]] and [[Bhavishya Purana]], etc.).<ref>{{cite web |first=Handrik Alim |last=Mashuri |title=Kalki Awatara Dalam Perspektif Dr. Pandit Ved Prakash Upaddhay Dalam Buku Muhammad in the Hindu Scriptures |url=http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/33427/1/SKRIPSI%20GABUNGAN.pdf |website=[[Sultan Syarif Kasim II State Islamic University]] |access-date=1 September 2022 |language=en |date=11 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="alidrak.com">{{cite journal |author1=Hafiz Muhammad Naeem, Associate Professor/Chairperson, Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, [[Government College University, Lahore]]|title=محمدﷺ بحیثیت خاتم النبین: پنڈت وید پرکاش اپادھیائے کی تحقیقات کا مطالعہ: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as the Final Messenger: A Critical Analysis of Pandit Ved Prakash Upaddhya's point of view |journal=Al-Idrak Journal |date=17 June 2022 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=176− 192 |url=https://www.alidrak.com/ojs3303/index.php/alidrak/article/view/45 |language=en |issn=2789-3227}}</ref><ref name="Noormags">{{cite journal |last1=روحانی |first1=‌سید‌محمد |title=جایگاه و کارکرد منجی‌ موعود هندو در متون پورانه‌ |publisher=[[Noormags]]| journal=انتظار موعود |date=1 April 1397 |volume=61 |issue=18 |pages=129–151 |url=https://www.noormags.ir/view/fa/articlepage/100996/138/text |access-date=1 September 2022 |language=fa}}</ref>

====Claimed analogies====
Ved Prakash claimed in the book that the age of [[Kali Yuga]] refers to the [[Islamic Golden Age]] and the present time is ''Anu Yuga'' or the time of Atomic energy. Some of the claimed similarities between Kalki and Muhammad shown on the book along with other two books of the trilogy are:<ref name="Global Media Publications">{{cite book |last1=Sikand |first1=Yoginder |title=Pseudo-messianic movements in contemporary Muslim South Asia |date=2008 |publisher=Global Media Publications |isbn=9788188869282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SYKAQAAMAAJ&q=kalki+avatar+muhammad+ved+prakash |accessdate=10 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Indian Journal of Secularism: IJS : a Journal of Centre for Study of Society & Secularism |date=2005 |publisher=The Centre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gRuAAAAMAAJ&q=kalki+avatar+muhammad+ved+prakash |accessdate=10 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* The most highlighted of the points was that the name of Kalki will be ''[[:wikt:नराशंस|Narashangsha]]'' ({{langx|sa|नराशंस}}), mentioned in [[:wikisource:sa:अथर्ववेदः/काण्डं २०/सूक्तम् १२७|Book 20, Hymn 127]] of [[Atharvaveda]] and others, which means "praised human", the meaning of the name Muhammad is also "praised man". The name of Kalki will also be ''Ileet'', which also means praised human.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sikand |first1=Yoginder |title=Muslims in India Since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134378258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yf5aJi2loLcC&dq=kalki+avatar+muhammad+ved+prakash&pg=PA241 |accessdate=10 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> 
* Kalki's name will be ''Ahamiddhi'', Muhammad's other name was ''Ahmad''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Minda Muslim Super |date=2008 |publisher=PTS Millennia |isbn=9789833603190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trqqLtM0-x4C&dq=Narashangsa+Rishi&pg=PA282 |accessdate=26 October 2019 |language=ms}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki has been mentioned as ''[[Savitr]]i'', all of whose characteristics mentioned are matched with Muhammad.<ref name=Au/>
* Kalki will be born on the 12th day of [[Madhav month]], the first month of the Hindu lunar year and the first month of summer. Muhammad was similarly born on the 12th day on Rabiul Awal, the third month of the Arabic lunar year but astrologically, the time was the summer season according to solar time.<ref name=Au>{{cite book |last1=Unal |first1=Ali |last2=Gultekin |first2=Harun |title=The Prophet Promised in World Scriptures |date=2013 |publisher=Tughra Books |isbn=9781597848237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZB1RCwAAQBAJ&dq=kalki+avatar+muhammad+ved+prakash&pg=PT251 |accessdate=10 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> 
* Kalki will be born in [[Shambhala]] or an island ("which is also described as the birthplace of [[Maitreya]], the last buddha prophcised by Gautama Buddha, whom the writer also claimed to be Muhammad in his 2nd book "Narashangsha and Antim Rishi"), which means place/house of peace, and a land beside water or sea, it also means Arab and Asia minor according to the world map division of Hindu religion, Makkah is Muhammad's birthplace which is also beside sea and it is in Arab and Asia minor and its another name is Darul Aman, which means the place/house of peace.
* Kalki's father's and mother's names will be Vishnu-yash/Vishnu-bhagawat and Sumati/Soumyavati, which mean "slave of God" and "peaceful lady" respectively. Muhammad's father's and mother's names are Abdullah and Amina, which also mean "slave of God" and "peaceful lady" respectively.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will be born of the family of the main priest of Shambhala. Muhammad was also born of the family of [[Abdul Muttalib]], the main priest of then the Makkah.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will not suckle his mother's milk. Muhammad was also deprived of his mother's milk, instead of that, he drank his foster-mother [[Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb|Halima]]'s breast milk.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will be impressively handsome (Anupama Kanti) and incomparably beautiful (Apratim Dyuti), Muhammad was also known to be handsome and impressive and had been described as the most beautiful man of contemporary Arabia.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will go to hillside after birth and receive messages from a mount from [[Parshurama]] (spirit of Raam or God, verbally Raam means God of the World) and then he will be ''Kaurava'' (migrator from homeland) and will go to north and after that he will return. Muhammad also received messages from God through Jibrail in the mount of [[Jabal al-Nour]], and another name of Jibrail is ''Ruhul-Amin'' and ''Ruhul-Quddus'' which means spirit of God, and he also migrated to Madina situated in north of the Makkah and after that returned to Makkah again with victory.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will ride on a camel, Muhammad also rode on a camel.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will travel around heaven by divine chariot ''[[Ratha]]'', Muhammad also travelled around heaven by [[Buraq]] in [[Miraj]].<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will ride on a miraculous flying white horse named ''Devadatta Shetashwa'' (meaning: white horse given by God) given by Shiva to destroy the evil, Muhammad also rode a miraculous flying white horse named [[Buraq]] given by Allah and destroyed evil.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will use Khaksha (sword) to fight. Muhammad also used a sword to fight.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will engage in war. Muhammad was also engaged in war.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Gods will directly help Kalki in war. Muhammad was also helped by the angels in the [[battle of Badr]].<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will defeat the demon [[Kali (demon)|Kali]] with the help of his four companions. Muhammad also defeated [[Satan]] with the help of his major four closest companions, one of whom would later be known as the [[Rashidun Caliph]].<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will destroy the hidden robbers. Muhammad also destroyed the oppressors who were kings and leaders at that time.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will be colloequally a ''[[Rudra]]'' of long hair and shaven head, an archer, a mount-climber and a mount-meditator.<!--This is the only Wikipedia page to use the phrases "mount-climber" and "mount-meditator"--> Muhammad also had long hair and a shaven head during [[Hajj]] and [[Umrah]]. he also used a bow and arrow, and he was a mount-climber and a mount-meditator.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Fregrance will come out from Kalki's body, Muhammad's body odour was also renowned for charming fragrance.<ref name=Au/>
* Kalki will be an omnivorous meat-eater; Muhammad was also an omnivorous meat-eater.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will be an adviser of a very big society, Muhammad was also an adviser of a big society.<ref name=Au/>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki will have several wives, Muhammad also had several wives.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bukti-bukti sains dan sejarah kerasulan Muhammad |date=2007 |publisher=PTS Litera Utama |isbn=9789833604531 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxemBQAAQBAJ&dq=Ahamiddhi&pg=PT70 |accessdate=26 October 2019 |language=ms}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=March 2025}}
* Kalki's name will be sage ''Mamoho/Mamaha''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abedin |first1=Mohammad Zainal |title=Mānabatāra diśārī |date=1966 |page=22 |edition=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dukRAQAAIAAJ&q=মামহ |accessdate=26 October 2019 |language=bn}}</ref> and he will be given 100 gold coins, 10 necklaces, 300 fighter horses and 10,000 peaceful cows.  Muhammad's 100 followers were devoted self-purifiers known as Ashab-i Suffa, 10 were given the good news of heaven, known as Ashara-i Mubashsharah, 300 followers were Badr fighters who fought victoriously against 1,000 enemies, and 10,000 was the number of his Muslim companions at the time of his victory in Makkah.  

The author identified [[Gautama Buddha]] as the scripturally mentioned [[Buddha|Buddha Avatar]] and suggested that Hindus should identify [[Muhammad]] as [[Kalki]] and follow him instead of waiting for him to come.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Srivastav |first1=M.A. |title=Hazrat Muhammad (Pbuh) n Bharatiya Dharma Grantha {{!}} Prophets And Messengers In Islam {{!}} Muhammad |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/92874101/Hazrat-Muhammad-Pbuh-n-Bharatiya-Dharma-Grantha |accessdate=25 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

====Reception====
After publication, the book became very popular in India.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mehar |first1=Iftikhar Ahmed |title=Al-Islam |date=2003 |publisher=AL-ISLAM |isbn=9781410732729 |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0gypGNaj3kC&dq=kalki+muhammad+ved+prakash&pg=PA200 |accessdate=23 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Bengali scholar [[Asitkumar Bandyopadhyay]] translated the book into Bengali language along with Upadhyay's other two books 'Narashangsa and the Antim Rishi" and "Religious Unity in the Light of the Vedas and the Puranas" and combined it in one edition in the same name.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Ved Prakash Upaddhayaya |author2=Ashit Kumar Bandhopaddhayaya |author3=Muhammad Alamgir |title=Muhammad in the Vedas and the Puranas |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Kalki+Avatar+Muhammad&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DYKA4u5EnKz4J |website=scholar.google.com |publisher=AS Noordeen |accessdate=22 October 2019 |date=1998}}</ref> The book was later also translated into English by several translators entitling ''Muhammad in the Hindu scriptures'' and ''Muhammad in the Vedas and the Puranas'', which gave the book immense popularity outside India.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sabjan |first1=Muhammad Azizan |title=The People of the Book and the People of the Dubious Book (Penerbit USM) |date=2008 |publisher=Penerbit USM |isbn=978-983-861-853-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q95qCQAAQBAJ&dq=muhammad+in+Hindu+scripture+ved+prakash+%22alamgir%22&pg=PT184 |access-date=8 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The book has also been translated in many regional Indian languages as well as in [[Urdu]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] language etc. Besides popularity, the book was also criticized by many Hindu and Muslim bodies,
describing the book as wrong explanation of Hindu scriptures by many Hindu scholars and as exclusion of [[Hinduism]] and [[Hindu scriptures]] from [[people of the Book]] and [[Islamic holy books|divine books]] by some Islamic scholars, whereas both of the sectors claimed the subjects of the book as later [[Interpolation (manuscripts)|interpolation]]s in Hindu scriptures.<ref>{{cite news |last1=ब्यूरो |first1=उगता भारत |title=क्या वेदों में मुहम्मद साहिब का वर्णन नराशंस के रूप में मिलता है? (Is Muhammad Sahib described as Narashana in the Vedas?)|url=https://www.ugtabharat.com/76915/ |access-date=8 September 2023 |work=[[:hi:उगता भारत|Ugta Bharat]] |date=20 May 2023 |language=hi-IN}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Azmi|first1=Ziaur Rahman|author-link1=Ziaur Rahman Azmi|title=دراسات في اليهودية والمسيحية وأديان الهند والبشارات في كتب الهندوس (Studies in Judaism, Christianity, Indian religions, and glad tidings in Hindu books) |date=2008|publisher=Maqtabur Rushd|pages=703–708|url=https://www.noor-book.com/en/book/internal_download/865e7470002231144605c52e5e264acd/2/fb5dd854dcf907fb80f85b5242f2e4f8/NDI2NzVlNmY3N2ZhOTUxNDMzZGVhY2I0NDg0MmI4OGMzNWIyMDgyNmRlZTI4ZmYxN2QyY2RjNGRkMGQzMzg0OWI5MmNkYjhmYTExNzEwNDA1N2YyNWMzNWIyYjBkYWEzMWVhOWUxZDJmZmUwYmM0MGI4ZWNkYWMxZjkzZGJlZjQxS1dhZ3ZyRUgwZnA3RmQrRThEeURZSFpKNysrUkFZQ3FoeG5WYTdaZkVhL2cranNiZFdnVThjWWc0OXZnTVpn|access-date=14 August 2022|language=ar}}</ref> Many international journal articles has been written and published on the book,<ref name="Ab"/><ref>{{cite web |first=Handrik Alim |last=Mashuri |title=Kalki Awatara Dalam Perspektif Dr. Pandit Ved Prakash Upaddhay Dalam Buku Muhammad in the Hindu Scriptures |url=http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/33427/1/SKRIPSI%20GABUNGAN.pdf |website=[[Sultan Syarif Kasim II State Islamic University]] |access-date=1 September 2022 |language=en |date=11 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="alidrak.com"/><ref name="Noormags"/> The book is a subject of discussion by many academics<ref>{{cite book |last1=Srivastava |first1=Ram Pal |title=अवतारवाद - एक नई दृष्टि |publisher=Sankalp Publication |isbn=978-93-91173-57-9 |page=177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdXKEAAAQBAJ&dq=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6&pg=PA177 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mañjula |first1=Rasika Bihārī |title=Bhārata bhavānī: Karagila yuddha se juṛī kucha kavitāyeṃ |date=2000 |publisher=Ravim Prakāśana |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pK5jAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=المصرية) |first1=علي جمعة محمد (مفتي الديار |title=اعرف نبيك: صلى الله عليه وسلم |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Nahdet Misr Publishing Group |isbn=978-977-14-2365-2 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjLwCgAAQBAJ&dq=%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A+%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF&pg=PA27 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=نقطه نظر |date=2005 |publisher=انسٹى ٹيوٹ آف پاليسى اسٹڈيز، |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kOAPAQAAMAAJ&q=%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF+%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ur}}</ref> like [[Yoginder Sikand]], [[Muzaffar Alam]], [[Utpal K. Banerjee]], [[Francesca Orsini]] and got wide media coverage in regional and international print and electronic medias.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Talib |first1=Tariq Mahmoud |title=Kalki Avtar - Investigative Urdu Article: بھارت کے پنڈت وید پرکاش اپادھیائے نے اپنی کتاب "کلکی اوتار" میں تصدیق کی ہے کہ ہندو اپنی مذہبی کتابوں کے مطابق جس اوتارکا انتظار کررہے ہیں وہ رسولﷺ ہی ہیں (India's Pandit Ved Prakash Upadhyay has confirmed in his book "Kalki Avatar" that according to their religious books, the avatar that Hindus are waiting for is the Prophet.) |url=https://www.urdupoint.com/daily/article/kalki-avtar-3308.html |access-date=29 July 2023 |work=[[Urdu Point]] |date=8 January 2010 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hamza |first1=Ameer |title=ختمِ نبوت اور وزیراعظم و آرمی چیف کی مساعی جمیلہ (End of Prophethood and efforts of Prime Minister and Army Chief Jamila) |url=https://dunya.com.pk/index.php/author/ameer-hamza/2019-10-11/28669/31008559 |access-date=29 July 2023 |work=[[Daily Dunya]] |date=11 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Asmae |first1=Sarwat Jamal |title=ہندومَت میں ''جگت گرو''، محمد عربی ﷺ کی آمد کی بشارتیں (The tidings of the arrival of the "Jagat Guru", Muhammad in Hinduism Arabi) |url=https://jang.com.pk/news/1002676 |access-date=29 July 2023 |work=[[Daily Jang]] |date=31 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=غیر مسلموںتک مذہب اسلام کا پیغام پہچانے'' اسلامی کتابوں کی مفت تقسیم'' وقت کا اہم ترین تقاضہ (Free distribution of Islamic books" is the most important requirement of the time to make the message of Islam known to non-Muslims) |url=https://archive.urdu.siasat.com/news/%D8%BA%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%DA%BA%D8%AA%DA%A9-%D9%85%D8%B0%DB%81%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%BE%DB%81%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86-524296/ |access-date=29 July 2023 |work=[[Siasat Daily]] Urdu Archive |date=6 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=پیارے رسول ﷺ کی عظمت : سب سے عظیم تر (The greatness of the beloved Prophet ﷺ: The greatest) |url=https://dailypakistan.com.pk/11-Aug-2017/623834 |access-date=30 July 2023 |work=[[Daily Pakistan]] |date=11 August 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Khan |first1=Zehad |title=মুহাম্মদ সা: প্রশংসিত (Muhammad (saw) praised) |url=https://www.dailynayadiganta.com/opinion/673358/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4 |access-date=30 July 2023 |work=[[Naya Diganta]] |date=27 June 2022 |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Murtaza) |first1=Muhammad |title=পশু উৎসর্গে সব ধর্মের ঐক্য (Unity of all the religions in sacrificing animals) |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/islamic-life/2020/07/27/939583 |access-date=30 July 2023 |work=[[Kaler Kantho]] |date=July 2020}}</ref>
=====Hindu views=====
The content of the book is mainly a discussion of the claim that [[Kalki|Kalki Avatar]] is [[Muhammad]] and the presence of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Hindu scriptures. For this reason, Kalki Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Bhagavata Purana, Vedas etc. have been chosen as sources of Hindu scriptures. Hindu scholars criticize and oppose all these claims. An Indian organization 'Agniveer' criticized all these claims. In addition, the book "Ovranto Boidik Shastrer Alokey Kolki Obotar" (অভ্রান্ত বৈদিক শাস্ত্রের আলোকে কল্কি অবতার, Kalki Avatar in the Light of Inerrant Vedic Scriptures) (2019), and the January–March version of Amriter Sandhane magazine, both published by Bangladeshi wing of [[Back to Godhead]], criticizes the claimed resemblance to Kalki Avatar.<ref>''[[iarchive:20201023 20201023 0916|অভ্রান্ত বৈদিক শাস্ত্রের আলোকে কল্কি অবতার]]; -2019 (Bangla)'' Publisher: Shri Charu Chandra Das Brahmachari;  Written, compiled and edited by: Pranayakumar Pal and Subhashish Dutta;  Publications: Amrited Sandhane (in search of nectar) (Bangladeshi window of [[Back to Godhead]]) Publication.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=২০১৬ সালের ম্যাগাজিন – Amriter Sandhane |journal=Amriter Sandhane (Bangladeshi Wing of Back to Godhead) |date=2016 |issue=January–March 2016 |pages=18–23 |url=https://amritersandhane.com/2016-3/ |access-date=13 September 2023}}</ref> But in the October–December 2016 edition of Amriter shandhane, the Bangladeshi wing of [[Back to Godhead]] claimed the mention of Muhammad in Bhavishya Purana and hymn 127, book 20 of [[Atharvaveda]] in support of authenticity of vedic scriptures, which similared to the claim of the book.<ref>{{cite journal |title=২০১৬ সালের ম্যাগাজিন – Amriter Sandhane |journal=Amriter Sandhane (Bangladeshi Wing of Back to Godhead) |date=2016 |issue=October–December 2016 |page=29 |url=https://amritersandhane.com/2016-3/ |access-date=13 September 2023}}</ref> Hindu spiritual leader [[Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)|Ravi Shankar]] claimed in his book "Hinduism and Islam: The Common Thread" that [[Muhammad]] is explicitly mentioned as the name "Mahamada" ({{langx|sa|महामद}}) in [[:wikisource:sa:भविष्यपुराणम् /पर्व ३ (प्रतिसर्गपर्व)/खण्डः ३/अध्यायः ०३|Parva 3, Khand 3, Adhyay 3, texts 5-6 (Episode 3, section 3, chapter 3, text 5–6)]] of [[Bhavishya Purana]]: "An illiterate teacher will appear, Mohammed is his name, and he will give religion to the people of the desert", which also resembles the book.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hinduism & Islam: The Common Thread (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) (2002) [Kindle edition] |date=2002 |publisher=Santa Barbara, CA: Art of Living Foundation USA |page=20 |url=https://archive.org/details/hinduism-islam-common-thread |quote=The Prophet Mohammed and His Appearance in Vedic Literature  The Vedic text Bhavishya Purana (Parva 3, Khand 3, Adya 3, texts  5-6) predicts the appearance of Mohammed. Therein it states: "An  illiterate teacher will appear, Mohammed is his name, and he will give  religion to the people of the desert."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Holy books of Hindus predicted about Mohammed (pbuh): Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/holy-books-hindus-predicted-mohammed-pbuh-sri-sri-ravi-shankar-1256845/ |access-date=13 September 2023 |work=The [[Siasat Daily]] – Archive |date=13 November 2017}}</ref>

Among all the similarities shown in the book with Kalki from the Kalki Purana, behavioral similarities are notable. For example: Muhammad is the last prophet of Islam with the last arrival of Kalki; Similarities of Muhammad's battles at various times with Kalki fighting on a white horse and sword, etc.<ref>Kalki Avatar and Muhammad Sahib - Publisher: Islami Sahitya Prakshanalaya.</ref> Critics cite Muhammad's contrasts with Kalki against such similarities.<ref name=":22"/> Again in the book it is said that there are similarities in various matters even applying the literal meaning. Critics consider such literal application of the similarity of characters to be misleading and a misapplication of meaning.

It also contains critical comments on Mughal history (the texts refer to them as "Mukuls") and mentions a "Mahamad". Critics point out that the "Mahamed" described in the Bhavishya Purana is a "[[mlechcha]]" (foreigner, barbarian) and is the "[[Daitya]]" or "[[ghost]]" called [[Tripurasura]]' who is reborn.,<ref>Bhavishya Purana, 3.21.11-12</ref> And the word "Muslim" has been said to mean a destroyer of religion.<ref name="agniveer.com">{{cite web|last1=Newar|first1=Sanjeev|date=2009-12-24|language=en-US|title=Prophet in Hindu Scriptures – Bhavishya Puran (Part 2)|url=http://agniveer.com/prophet-puran/|access-date=2022-09-23|website=Agniveer}}</ref> [[AK Ramanujan]] mentions [[Christ]], [[Moses]] and [[Queen Victoria Mosque|Queen Victoria]] in a "properly updated Bhavisya Purana".<ref name=":02">For quotations see: Ramanujan, A. K., "Folk Mythologies and {{IAST|Purāṇas}}" in: Doniger</ref> 
Regarding "Pratisargaparva" Hazra says: Although it belongs to "Bhavishya Purana" (Ik.1.2-3), "Pratisargaparva" refers to Adam, Noah, Yakuta, Timurlong, Nadirshah, [[Akbar]] (Delishwar), Jayachandra and many others. The book also mentions British rule in India, even mentioning [[Calcutta]] and Parliament.<ref>For quotation describing the ''Pratisargaparvan'' as "practically a new work" see: Hazra, Rajendra Chandra, "{{IAST|The Purāṇas}}", in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962), volume 2, p. 263.</ref>

The book also claims that the Vedas contain prophecies of Muhammad. For example, in the Atharvaveda Kuntapa Sukta, 'Narasamsha', which is used for any praised person, the word Muhammad means praise, and the Sukta is claimed to describe Muhammad's prophecy. The sukta appears to refer to a justly praised king (Indra), although no Muhammadan association with them is found.<ref>Dr.  Tulshiram Sharma (London UK.);  ''[[Atharvaveda]] (English language);  Publisher- Vijaykumar Govindram Hasanand''</ref> Certain verses of the mantra are precisely identified and their semantic similarities are shown in order to create the context, mainly to prove Muhammad's prophecies. Critics see such spending as ulterior motives.

Hindu scholars dispute the book's claims. A criticism of the claimed resemblance to Kalki Avatar is found in the book ''Ovranto Boidik Shastrer Alokey Kolki Obotar'' published by Amriter Sandhane Prakashani. Indian organizations like Agniveer also criticized these claims.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Newar|first1=Sanjeev|date=2009-12-24|language=en-US|title=Prophet in Hindu Scriptures – An analysis (Part 1)|url=http://agniveer.com/prophet-hindu/|access-date=2022-09-23|website=Agniveer}}</ref><ref name="agniveer.com"/> Criticism states,
* There are many differences in the behavioral characteristics of both. Moreover, even if there is a similarity in meaning, the two characters may not be the same.<ref name=":22">''[[iarchive:20201023 20201023 0916|"Ovranto Boidik Shastrer Alokey Kolki Obotar" (অভ্রান্ত বৈদিক শাস্ত্রের আলোকে কল্কি অবতার, Kalki Avatar in the Light of Inerrant Vedic Scriptures) (2019)]];'' Publisher: Shri Charu Chandra Das Brahmachari;  Written, compiled and edited by: Pranayakumar Pal and Subhashish Dutta;  Publications: Amriter Shandhane Prakashani (Bangladeshi window of [[Back to Godhead]]);  First release - 2019.</ref>
* In Hinduism, Kalkideva is seen as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.<ref name=":1">[http://www.vedabase.net/bg/8/17/en1 B-Gita 8.17] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429214109/http://vedabase.net/bg/8/17/en1|date=29 April 2009}} "And finally in Kal-yuga (the yuga we have now been experiencing over the past 5,000 years) there is an abundance of strife, ignorance, irreligion and vice, true virtue being practically nonexistent, and this yuga lasts 432,000 years. In Kali-yuga vice increases to such a point that at the termination of the yuga the Supreme Lord Himself appears as the Kalki avatara"</ref> He cannot be human.<ref name=":22" />{{Rp|page:14}}
* According to Hindu belief, [[Kalki]]deva will arrive at the end of [[Kali Yuga]]. That is after another 4,27,000 years.<ref name="Brockington1998p287">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HR-_LK5kl18C|title=The Sanskrit Epics|author=J. L. Brockington|year=1998|publisher=BRILL Academic|pages=287–288 with footnotes 126–127|isbn=90-04-10260-4}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Kalki cannot appear at any time in the past.<ref name=":22" />{{Rp|p:19}}
* Kalki's father's name 'Vishnuyash' means 'Yash like Vishnu' and mother's name 'Sumati' means 'Subuddhi'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangladict.com - অভিধানে 'মতি' এর অর্থ|url=http://www.bangladict.com/মতি|access-date=2022-07-01|website=www.bangladict.com}}</ref><ref name="Meri2004">{{citation|last=Meri|first=Josef W.|title=Medieval Islamic civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC|accessdate=3 January 2013|volume=1|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|language=en|isbn=978-0-415-96690-0|page=525|archive-date=14 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114153019/http://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC|url-status=live}}</ref> but it is not seen in the case of Muhammad.<ref name=":22" />{{Rp|p:38–39; 67}}
* The book compares Kalki's birthplace ''[[Shambhala]]'' with the place [[Mecca]] which etymologically means 'place of peace'. Whereas the word Shambhal (Shambhu + Aloy) literally means 'abode of welfare'. On the other hand, the literal meaning of the word Makkah is not clearly known.<ref name="Versteeghp513">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWQOAQAAMAAJ|title=Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, Volume 4|year=2008|publisher=Brill|page=513|isbn=978-90-04-14476-7|edition=Illustrated|author=Versteegh, Kees|editor1=C.H.M. Versteegh|editor2=Kees Versteegh}}</ref>
* According to the description of Kalki Purana, the village of Shambal will be a place full of rivers, mountains, kunjshovit, rich nature and forests with six seasons. A desert region without forests and rivers would not be Shambalgram. In addition, Hindus consider Sambhal village in Uttar Pradesh, India to be the village mentioned in the Puranas.<ref name=":22" />
* Kalki was born on the twelfth tithi of Shuklapaksha of the month of Madhava (magha according to the lunar month) which is the 27th of the lunar month (15 days + 12 days of Krishna Paksha). On the other hand, there is a difference of opinion in the Muslim community regarding the date of birth of Muhammad.।<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-04-22|language=bn|title=মহানবী (সা.)-এর জন্ম তারিখ নিয়ে ঐতিহাসিকদের অভিমত {{!}} কালের কণ্ঠ|url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/islamic-life/2016/04/22/350124|access-date=2022-06-30|website=Kalerkantho}}</ref><ref name=":22" />{{Rp|pp. 57–59}}
* According to the Puranas Kalki will be the fourth child of the parents.<ref>[[Kalki Purana]] 2.31</ref> But this is not the case with Muhammad.
* Kalki's 'two' wives were 'Padma' and 'Rambha'. Padma would be a princess of Sinhalese (present-day Sri Lanka).{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=183 with footnotes}} does not resemble the claimed character.<ref name=":22" />{{Rp|p:45–47  }}

Indian Hindu organisation ''Agniveer'' also judjed the book by the academic works of western scholars on Hinduism. According to the organisation, the book presents the story of Abrahamic Adam and Eve, Noah, described in the Pratisarga episode of Bhavisya Purana. According to scholars, the 'Pratisargaparva' portion of the Bhavishya Purana is considered a projected addition of the eighteenth or nineteenth century.{{Sfn|Rocher|1986}}{{Sfn|Dalal|2014}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uV-RrRoMzbgC|title=Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics|last1=Alf Hiltebeitel|year=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|pages=217–218|isbn=978-0-226-34050-0}}</ref> 
[[Moriz Winternitz]] says that the texts which have come down to us under the title Bhavisya Purana, are undoubtedly not the ancient works of the original Bhavisya Purana quoted in the "Apastambiya Dharmasutra".<ref>For statement that the extant text is not the ancient work, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 567.</ref><ref>For the quotation in ''{{IAST|Āpastambīya Dharmasūtra}}'' attributed to the ''{{IAST|Bhaviṣyat Purāṇa}}'' not extant today, see: Winternitz, volume 1, p. 519.</ref> As Gustav Glaser has shown, the surviving manuscripts of the Bhavisya Purana are neither ancient nor medieval versions of the original Bhavisya Purana. The author of this episode is believed to know both the English Bible and Arabic Islamic texts, but many of the words used here are derived from Arabic words and names, not from English sources.

The presence of Arabic words suggests that the corresponding portion of Bhavisya Purana was written well after the fourteenth century and must have been composed after the rise of the Mughal Empire and the availability of Arabic sources in India.<ref name="Hiltebeitel1999p2754">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uV-RrRoMzbgC|title=Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics|last1=Alf Hiltebeitel|year=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|pages=274–277|isbn=978-0-226-34050-0}}</ref> This episode has therefore led many scholars to question the acceptability of the "Bhavishya Puranas" and that these Puranas are not accepted as authentic scriptures.{{Sfn|K P Gietz|1992}}{{Sfn|Rocher|1986}} In this Purana there are more uses of such words including ``Sante'' (from Sunday), ''Farbari'' (from February), ''Sixty'' (from Sixty).<ref name="Glaesser">{{cite journal|journal= Münchener Indologische Studien vol. 5 by Adam Hohenberger, Helmut Hoffmann| last1=Glaesser|first1=Gustav|year=1969|title=Review of Das Bhaviṣyapurāṇa |pages=511–513|jstor=29755461}}</ref>

In the book "[[Satyarth Prakash]]", [[Dayanad Saraswati]] also rejected the claim of the mention of Muhammad in Atharvaveda, and he criticised the mention of Muhammad in [[Allopanishad]] calling it as a later fabrication to please [[Akbar]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dayananda Sarasvati |first1=Swami |title=An English translation of the Satyarth Prakash; literally, Expose of right sense (of Vedic religion) of Maharshi Swami Dayanand Saraswati, 'The Luther of India,' being a guide to Vedic hermeneutics |date=1908 |publisher=Lahore : Virganand Press |page=588 |url=https://archive.org/details/satyarthprakashl00dayauoft/page/n560/mode/1up |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref>

The Bangladeshi wing of the organisation Agniveer extremely criticised the concepts of the book and the writer and they claimed that the writer doesn't exist in reality because his academic records are not found anywhere in Bengali.<ref>{{cite web |title=অথর্ববেদের কুন্তাপ সূক্তে ইসলামের নবী: চাঁদে সাঈদীর দর্শন |url=https://www.agniveerbangla.org/2018/03/blog-post_1.html?m=1 |website=Bangladesh Agniveer |access-date=16 September 2023 |language=en |date=5 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=কল্কি অবতার ই কি নবী মুহাম্মদ? |url=https://www.agniveerbangla.org/2020/07/blog-post_9.html?m=1 |website=Bangladesh Agniveer |access-date=16 September 2023 |pages=9 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

=====Muslim views=====
Indian Islamic preacher [[Zakir Naik]] deliberately mentioned extensive references from this book along with mentioning the writer Ved Prakash's name in his various writings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Naik |first1=Zakir |author1-link=Zakir Naik |title=Similarities Between Hinduism & Islam |date=2007 |publisher=Adam Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7435-567-6 |pages=33–43, 80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So4O46mUp0QC |access-date=28 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Pakistani former high commissioner [[Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi]] discussed the book in his writing.<ref name=af/> Besides renowned international writers like [[Ali Unal]],<ref name="Au"/> [[Shams Naved Usmani]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=ʻUs̲mānī |first1=Shams Navīd |title=Agar ab bhī nah jāge tau-- |date=1989 |publisher=Raushnī Pablishing Hāʼūs |page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tDtAAAAIAAJ&q=%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF+%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ur}}</ref> [[Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=بشىر |first1=محمود، سلطان |title=کتاب زندگى: قرآن حکىم کى سائنسى تفسىر : سورة الفاتحه، سورة البقرة |date=2003 |publisher=القرآن الحکىم رىسر چ فاؤنڈىشن، |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNPXAAAAMAAJ&q=%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF+%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ur}}</ref> and [[:ms:Danial Zainal Abidin|Danial Zainal Abidin]], [[Ali Goma]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=المصرية) |first1=علي جمعة محمد (مفتي الديار |title=اعرف نبيك: صلى الله عليه وسلم |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Nahdet Misr Publishing Group |isbn=978-977-14-2365-2 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjLwCgAAQBAJ&dq=%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A+%D9%88+%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF&pg=PA27 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=مباركفوري، صفي |title=و انك لعلى خلق عظيم 1 |date=2006 |publisher=الدار الاسلامية للطباعة والنشر |isbn=978-977-6195-00-4 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGi5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF+%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4+%22 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[:ar:سامي عامري|Sami Amri]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=عامري |first1=سامي |title=محمد رسول الله فى الكتب المقدسة : عند النصارى و اليهود و الهندوس و الصابئة و البوذيين و المجوس |date=2006 |publisher=منظمة الاسلاميةللعلوم الطبية |isbn=978-977-289-127-6 |pages=420–427 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=575gAAAAIAAJ&q=Ved+prarkash+upaddhayaya |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[Nihat Hatipoğlu]]<ref name=oda>{{cite news |title=Nihat Hatipoğlu Hinduları Müslüman ilan etti |url=https://www.odatv4.com/medya/nihat-hatipoglu-hindulari-musluman-ilan-etti-20121914-174878 |access-date=26 September 2023 |work=[[OdaTV]] |date=20 December 2019 |language=tr-TR}}</ref> etc. discussed and praised the book.

[[Ziaur Rahman Azmi]] in his book ''"[[Studies in Judaism, Christianity and the Religions of India|Dirasat fil Yahudiyat wal Masihiyat Wal Adianil Hind]]"'' (دراست في اليوديه والمسيحيه واديان الحند, Studies on Judaism, Christianity and Indian Religions) stated that, although most of the mainstream Muslim scholars do not regard [[Hindu scriptures]] as [[people of the book|divine scriptures]] revealed from God rather than man-made [[Historical vedic religion|Aryan literature]], there may be three reasons behind the "possible" inclusion of Islamic prophecies in Hinduism.<ref name=Ab/> First one is, 
# The period of the [[Indo-Aryan Migration]] was during the time of the Islamic prophet [[Abraham in Islam|Ibrahim]] ([[Abraham]]), during which another prophet may have come to India, under whose direction these prophecies are included. 
# Or what many Hindus say, [[Rigveda]] is copied from [[Torah]]. 
# Another view is that, according to Sultan Mubin, professor of Sanskrit at [[Shibli National College, Azamgarh]], they are fabrications and later Hindu additions, incorporated by Hindus to please Muslim rulers, such as the [[Kalki Purana]] and the [[Bhavishya Purana]], which contain many prophecies on Islamic matters.<ref name=Ab/> Azmi argues in support of this view that most of the Hindu scriptures were translated into Arabic in [[House of Wisdom|Bayt Al-Hiqmah]] during the reign of the Caliph [[al-Ma'mun|Mamun bin al-Rashid]], but even then, no author of that time mentioned anything of these prophecies in any of these books. For example, [[Alberuni's India|India]] by [[al-Biruni]] ("تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة مقبولة في العقل أو مرذولة", Taḥqīq mā li-l-hind min maqūla maqbūla fī l-ʿaql aw mardhūla, A Critical Study of Indian Doctrines, Whether Rationally Acceptable or Not) and the Arabic translations of two other Hindu scriptures. Regarding the translations, none of which said anything about these prophecies.<ref name=Ab/> 
Azmi himself supported the third view.<ref name=Ab/> Azmi Also said that, some Hindus including the founder of [[Arya Samaj]] [[Dayananda Saraswati]] and his followers also consider these to be fabrications. Besides, regarding the author of the book, Ved Prakash Upadhyay, Azmi said that although he claimed the verification of these prophecies in this book, he himself did not convert to Islam, as Azmi describes 5 positions of Hindu scholars regarding these descriptions:<ref name=Ab/>
# Many of them say that these good news are related to their religious leaders and great people.
# Others believe that the person to whom this good news is addressed will appear in the last days.
# Many consider these to be fabrications. Eg: [[Dayananda Saraswati]] and his followers.
# Some consider these to be true; But they did not accept Islam. Such as Ved Prakash Upadhyay and Ramesh Prasad.
# Many others accepted the truth of these and wished to accept Islam, but did not do so for fear of losing their lives or leadership. Among them, those who accepted Islam and publicly declared it, had to face many dangers, had to bear the beatings, abuse and torture of the natives. Those who escaped were freed from it; And those who were under them, their fate was miserable.
# Many of them again adopt the policy of keeping quiet about this. When Azmi wrote letters to many people in India and sent these details to present them in front of Hindu researchers and professors, they replied to Azmi that they did not want to talk about this if these were presented in front of those professors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=أعظمى، محمد ضياء |title=دراسات في اليهودية والمسيحية وأديان الهند |date=2001 |publisher=مكتبة الرشد، |pages=703–708 |url=https://www.noor-book.com/en/book/internal_download/865e7470002231144605c52e5e264acd/2/fb5dd854dcf907fb80f85b5242f2e4f8/NDI2NzVlNmY3N2ZhOTUxNDMzZGVhY2I0NDg0MmI4OGMzNWIyMDgyNmRlZTI4ZmYxN2QyY2RjNGRkMGQzMzg0OWI5MmNkYjhmYTExNzEwNDA1N2YyNWMzNWIyYjBkYWEzMWVhOWUxZDJmZmUwYmM0MGI4ZWNkYWMxZjkzZGJlZjQxS1dhZ3ZyRUgwZnA3RmQrRThEeURZSFpKNysrUkFZQ3FoeG5WYTdaZkVhL2cranNiZFdnVThjWWc0OXZnTVpn |access-date=14 August 2022 |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=أعظمى، محمد ضياء |title=دراسات في اليهودية والمسيحية وأديان الهند والبشارات في كتب الهندوس |date=2008 |publisher=مكتبة الرشد، |pages=703–708 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bGWswEACAAJ&q=%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88+%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF |access-date = 14 August 2022|language=ar}}</ref>

[[Bangladesh]]i Islamic scholar [[Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria]], who has conducted advanced research and studies on [[Hinduism]] at the [[Islamic University of Madinah]] in Saudi Arabia, said about the book in his book ''Hinduism wa tasur bad al firaq al islamiat biha'' (Hinduism and some Islamic groups influenced by it) that,<ref name="AHWT"/> 
{{blockquote|"There is a section for this Purana ([[Bhavishya Purana]]) called [[Kalki Purana]], which touched upon [[Kalki]] Avatar, (Avatar that comes in the Kali time, or the last time) and what came in this Purana was the reality of Muhammad only, when one of their scholars (Ved Prakash Upaddhay) admitted that there is no Kalki Avatar except Muhammad and he mentioned evidence for that from this book, and claimed that it only applies to it, except that the Hindus differed in accepting this part of the book, and they said that it was plagiarized and it was developed by the later and it was included in the book at a very late time."<ref name="AHWT"/>}}
Zakaria also criticized the book, saying that Narasangsha is described in verse 127 of the 20th volume of the Atharveda as Kalki which is not the main body of the Atharvaveda, he said that it is an anticipatory portion (Prakshipta Angsha or later interpolation) and subsequent connections, and said that prophecies of [[Muhammad]] in Hindu scriptures were used by Hindus to make their scriptures acceptable to Muslims, which is a clever attempt, beginning with Akbar's reign to flatter Emperor Akbar by writing the [[Allopanishad]], he claims that the Bhavishya Purana is completely fabricated and man-made with Hindu references. He says that Hinduism has a habit of adding everything in its religion they got outside in the name of their own religion fabricatedly to attract people to come into their religion, this is also a result of that. In addition, all Hindu scriptures, including the Vedas, are claimed to be adaptations of the beliefs of the migrated [[Japhethite]] [[Aryan]]s ([[Zoroastrian]]s and [[Rigved]]ians), indigenous [[Hemite]] [[Dravidian peoples|Dravid]]ians, and other [[Proto-Indo-European mythology|Indo-European classical mythologies]] along with the influence of monotheism taken from [[Avesta]]n concept of [[Ahura Mazda]] influenced by tha geographically adjacent Arabian [[Semitic people]], as he claimed that, ancient Dravidian Indians were the descendant of [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]], one of the [[sons of Noah]], and the [[Aryan]]s were the descendants of [[Japheth]], another of the three remained sons of [[Noah]] after the [[Genesis flood narrative|Biblical great flood]],
{{blockquote|This is what historians have mentioned regarding the origin of the people of India, although the truth of the matter is that all are from [[Adam]], and Adam is from dust, and God has destroyed the children of Adam except for [[sons of Noah|Noah's children]]. The Almighty said: In it, the [[sons of Noah]] who remained after the Flood were three: [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]] - [[Shem]] - [[Japheth]], and the sons of Noah spread all over the world ([[as-Saaffat]]  37:75-82, [[Al-Bidaya wa l-Nihaya|Al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya]], [[Ibn Kathir]], 1/111-114), and the lands at that time were close, and the seas were far apart, and it is said that [[Sindh]] and [[Al-Hind]] are the sons of Tawqeer (Bouqir) (Nawfer) bin Yaqtan bin Aber bin Shalekh bin Arfakhshad bin Sam bin Noah. It was said: One of the sons of Ham, [[Al-Masudi]] says: (Nuvir bin Lot bin Ham walked his son and those who followed him to the land of Hind and Sindh), and [[Ibn al-Athir]] says: (As for [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]], [[Cush (Bible)|Kush]], [[Misraim]], [[Phut]], and [[Canaan (son of Ham)|Canaan]] were born... It was said: He traveled to Al-Hind (India) and Sindh and lodged it and its people from his sons and [[Ibn Khaldun]] says: As for Ham, from his sons are the [[Sudan]], Hind (India), Sindh, the [[Copt]]s (Kibt), and Canaan by agreement... As for Kush bin Ham, five of his sons are mentioned in the Torah, and they are sufun, [[Saba' (Sheba)|Saba]], and Juila and [[Rama]] and Safakha and from the sons of Rama Shao, who are the Sindh, and Dadan, who are Hind or India, and in it that [[Nimrod]] is from the birth of Kush,..... and that Al-Hind (India), Sindh and Habasha ([[Abyssinia]]) are from the children of the [[Sudan]] from the birth of [[Cush (Bible)|Kush]]. From the foregoing it appears to me: that India entered it at that time from all the races of descendants of Noah, and among the most prominent of them were the sons of [[Shem]] bin Noah, peace be upon him, but the sincere [[Dravidian peoples|Dravid]]s and those who are likely to be the sons of [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]] entered it in abundance. As for the entry of the sons of [[Japheth]], it was little, and they are the ones who were known as the [[Turanian]]s, and by joining the ancient Dravid society and as a result of breeding with them, the born Dravids came as previously explained.<ref name="AHWT"/>}} and says that since the Hindu texts do not "truly" contain the original Abrahamic monotheism of God or [[Allah]], it is in neither consistent with the original tenets of Islam, nor these are original divine books, rather the pagan [[Advaita Vedanta]] philosophy, which developed the concept of [[Wahdat al-Wujud]] or [[Sufism]] arose in the name of Islam. And as Hinduism established itself as a conformist and syncretistic doctrine from the Islamic point of view, he claimed that, all Hindu scriptures are not inspired but man-made Aryan literature and the theory that this book attributed Kalki to Muhammad was a false and deceitful attempt.<ref name="AHWT">{{cite book |title=الهندوسية وتأثر بعض الفرق الاسلامية بها |date=2016 |publisher=Dār al-Awrāq al-Thaqāfīyah |isbn=978-603-90755-6-1 |pages=17, 63, 95–96, 102, 156, 188–189, 554–558, 698–99, 825, 870–890, 990–991, 1067–1068, 1071, 1159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLGztAEACAAJ&q=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1+%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%B6+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%82+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7 |access-date=28 July 2023  |language=ar}}</ref>

=== Other works ===
Upaddhyay published 15 research and original books.<ref name=a/><ref name=k/> Those include: 
* नरशंस और अंतिम ऋषि (Narasamsa and the last sage)<ref>{{cite news |title=
 A Hindu view of Islam|first1= M. Zeyaul |last1=Haque|url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15052001/sign.htm |access-date=21 July 2023 |work=[[The Milli Gazette]] }}</ref>
* हिन्दू विधि एवं स्त्रोत (Hindu Law and Sutras), International Law Institute, Allahabad, 1986<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tripāṭhī |first1=Pratibhā |title=Aparādha evaṃ daṇḍa: smr̥tiyoṃ evam dharmasūtroṃ ke pariprekshya meṃ |date=1993 |publisher=Rākā Prakāśana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac3kAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref>
* हिंदी साहित्य का इतिहास, काव्यशास्त्र एवं लिपि (History of Hindi Literature, Poetry and Script), Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 2014)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Agnihotri |first1=Dr Brijendra |title=Hindi Sahitya Ka Nikash |date=21 December 2021 |publisher=Book Rivers |isbn=978-93-5515-098-1 |page=422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DU1WEAAAQBAJ&dq=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF&pg=PA422 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Bhavishya Purana#Mahamada or Muhammad|Bhavishya Purana § Mahamada or Muhammad]]

==References==
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===Works cited===
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* {{cite book |first=Rosen |last=Dalal |year=2014 |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-8184752779 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC}}
* {{cite book |author=K P Gietz |display-authors=etal |title=Epic and Puranic Bibliography (Up to 1985) Annoted and with Indexes: Part I: A - R, Part II: S - Z, Indexes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgpLBpUCufwC&pg=PA870 |year=1992 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-03028-1}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rocher |first1=Ludo |author-link=Ludo Rocher |title=The Purāṇas |date=1986 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=3-447-02522-0}}
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