While slight manipulation for dramatic effect of chronology and character traits are generally accepted, some critics feel that depictions that present a significantly altered reality are irresponsible, particularly because many viewers and readers do not know the actual events and may thus take the dramatized depiction to be true to reality
वेळ अमावास्या कृषि-पराशर या ग्रंथाचा लेखक पराशर कोण असावा याविषयीही मतभिन्नता आहे,तथापि वैदिक काळातील सूक्तद्रष्टा पराशर हा या ग्रंथाचा कर्ता नाही असेही अभ्यासक मानतात.