VEDANTA VS CYCLIC UNIVERSE

In the Cyclic Universe model described thus far, the Cycles continue regularly for- ever into the past and future'. -Page 165 , Endless universe
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" Ancient Hindu Cosmology presents aremaskably detailed and quantitative vision of Cyclic evolution..............................................
One kind of cycle correspond to a day and night in Brahma's life........
converted to a Earth's year, some of these have cycling periods that are surprisingy similar to time-scales of interesting contemporary cosmology. A day and a night in the life of Brahma are a 'Kalpa', a period of 8.64 billion years, roughly the duration of matter -dominated epoch in moderncosmology................................................................
The Vishnu Purana says that each of these cycle is followed by a drought untill all waters dry up. In modern cosmology, matter domination is followed by a dark-energy domination, during which no new galaxies form. ...........................................................................
There havebeen numerous Brahmas before and there will be numerous ones to follow."

-End less Universe, ; Beyond the Big Bang : ; Paul J. Steihard and Neil Turok , 2007 First Edition, ISBN : 987 -0-385 -50964 , P --169 -170 .
* It should be well understood that the word 'Brahma' is no name of a physically divine person but qualifies the post of an executive function for each Universe (Kapa), just like EMF is no identity of any physical Structure but the representative logo for Electro-magnetic field.
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Personal View ; Both Buddhism and HInduism are but off-spring from the root Vedanta ( Buddha was born with Vedantis Faith and Hiduism was a post Budhistic -
development or culmination (afterr Vaishnavism ) as aftermath of Shakaracharya's Mayabad and Brahminism . The name HINDU is nat a snskrit derivative but a connotation under Persian Invaders imposed identity ( Just like 'INDIA 'is a Greek slang imposed on Bharat from the word "SINDHU SAVYATA or Indus valley Civilisation).
As such ,I think. the real source of the Ancient wisdom of Cosmology ,as given above came from Vedic and Vedantic knowledge of Bharata(India) and which preceded even the Greek period of science and Cosmology ,in my opinion.