During the Vedic Age in India‚ a group of people called the Aryans became a dominant culture if north India. These people spoke an early form of Sanskrit‚ “an Indo-European language closely related to Persian and more distantly related to Latin‚ Greek‚ Celtic‚ and their modern [linguistic] decendants” (McKay‚ 68). The Indo-European Aryans created a complex society with it’s own distinctive social structure‚ religious beliefs‚ and technologies. The primary source of information about the Aryans and
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Caste System Throughout thousands of years in the Hindu religion‚ a person’s social class was determined immediately after they are born. This organisation was then later known as the Caste System. Caste members lived‚ married‚ and worked within their selected group. A person born into one caste was not allowed to change castes or associate with other members of a different caste. Rules and expectations were set for each caste‚ each caste had a clear and distinct role within the community. It does
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She was totally committed to the Kashmir school of Yoga Shaivism. She shared her insights with the common people in colloquial speech rather than elitist Sanskrit. She made the most profound truth of Trika philosophy more accessible to the ordinary people and guided them through a period of civilisation crisis that threatened Kashmir in the 14th century. Literature in Lalla’s era was still carried forwarded
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Elements in Sande¿ak¡vyas Introduction Sanskrit is the vast and rich treasure house of various branches of knowledge. It has produced magnificent and sublime poetry since time immemorial. Ancient Indian thinkers thought a lot on the various aspects of poetry from different angles and consequently criticism of poetry developed here. New views emerged‚ several literary principles were explored and a series of schools of poetics came into existence. Sanskrit poetics is remarkably rich. Inasmuch as
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India • Kalidas‚ the great Sanskrit dramatist‚ belonged to this period. His books are: Abhigyanashakuntalam the other work being the Bhagavadgita‚ Meghadutam‚ Kumarasambhavam etc. • Apart from Kalidas‚ others were Sudraka (author of Mrichchakatikam)‚ Bharavi ‚ Dandin. To this period belongs 13 plays written by Bhasa. Most famous of these was Charudatta. • Vishnu Sharma wrote Panchtantra and Hitopdesh. • The Gupta period also saw the development of Sanskrit grammar based on Panini and
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Malayalam poetry. Kerala Panineeyam is considered to be an authoritative work on Malayalam grammar. He was a rare blend of scholarship and creative talent and was the moving spirit behind the great literary renaissance in Kerala. He wrote widely in Sanskrit and Malayalam and his poetic works were influenced by the study of British romantic poets of the 19th century. His essays are fine examples of excellent prose and his name will be remembered as long as Malayalam survives. Ulloor S. Parameshwar Iyer
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Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म; IPA: [ˈkarmə] ( listen); Pali: kamma) means action‚ work or deed;[1] it also refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual.[2] Good intent and good deed contribute to good karma and future happiness‚ while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad karma and future suffering.[3][4] Karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian religions.[5] In these schools‚ karma in the
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Hindutva SwatantryaVeer V.D. Savarkar Essentials of Hindutva Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883 – 1966) What is in a name? We hope that the fair Maid of Verona who made the impassioned appeal to her lover to change ’a name that was ’nor hand‚ nor foot‚ nor arm‚ nor face‚ nor any other part belonging to a man’ would forgive us for this our idolatrous attachment to it when we make bold to assert that‚ ’Hindus we are and love to remain so!’ We too would‚ had we been in
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(written universally as ॐ; in Devanagari as ओं oṃ [õː]‚ औं auṃ [ə̃ũ]‚ or ओ३म् om [õːm]) is a mantra and mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin (geographically India)‚ sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Sanatana Dharma and Jainism. The syllable is also referred to as omkara (ओंकार oṃkāra) or aumkara (औंकार auṃkāra)‚ literally "om syllable"‚ and in Sanskrit it is sometimes referred to as praṇava‚ literally "that which is sounded out loudly". Om is also written
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