HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Roots of Indian Culture in Sindhu Saraswati Civilisation The Saraswati Civilisation A fresh study by a group of international scientists peesh confirms the dominant role of Saraswati river in sustaining the so-called Indus Valley Civilisation. [28] A new study titled‚ ‘Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilisation’‚ has concluded that the Indus Valley Civilisation died out because the monsoons which fed the rivers that supported the civilisation‚ migrated
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Indian society. These changes occur because Aryans held integration with Dravidian culture and subsequently gave birth to the integration of the Hindu religion. Aryans began writing Vedic scriptures which written in four parts such as Reg Veda‚ Sama Veda‚ Yayur Veda and Vedic Atharwa. Hindu civilization and national life are also evident in the book or the book Brahmana Upanishad. The thethird book is the basis of thought and the basic life of Hindus. The origins of Hinduism followed by a change of
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survived for centuries and are still widely practiced around the globe. No one knows where and when Hinduism was started. Their oldest documents written were the Vedas‚ which were first copied onto paper in 1000 B.C.‚ however they existed orally long before that time.Hinduism is thought to have originated from the Vedas. Today Hinduism differs greatly from when it was first practiced‚ there are now different sects‚ which are also known as
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metaphysics‚ logic‚ ethics or cosmology. Hence‚ historians of Indian philosophy typically understand the term “Hindu philosophy” as standing for the collection of philosophical views that share a textual connection to certain core Hindu religious texts (the Vedas)‚ and they do not identify “Hindu philosophy” with a particular comprehensive philosophical doctrine. Hindu philosophy not only includes the philosophical doctrines present in Hindu texts of primary and secondary religious importance‚ but also the
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Brahminical texts reveal that as early as the late Vedic period women were denied some of the roles they had in the early Vedic culture (1500-800 BCE). Hindu tradition even up to the present day understands that women were never allowed to recite the Vedas or even witness a Vedic ritual. When social hierarchies began to be created in association with the creation of cities worldwide‚ social developments generally resulted in the restriction of the rights of women. In India‚ women began to be subjugated
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BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY Buddhism is one of the most remarkable development of Indian thought. It is an offshoot of later Vedic thought. Buddhism is founded on the rejection of certain orthodox Hindu Philosophical concepts. It has many philosophical views with Hinduism‚ such as belief in Karma‚ a cause and effect relationship between all that has being done and all that will be done. Events that occur are held to be direct results of previous events. The ultimate goal for both is to eliminate Karma
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sizable body of oral religious poetry had been composed. This body of chanted poetry grew to massive proportions‚ and the best of the poems were compiled as an anthology called Rigveda‚ which was then canonized. The hymns of the Rigveda‚ the oldest Veda‚ are addressed to the elements of nature personified as deities‚ and are prayers for protection from calamities and for attainment of prosperity - material as well as spiritual. The Rigveda came into being between 1500 BC and 500 BC. It was
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possible that males of some sub-sects have intermarried with Dravidian castes‚ outside the Brahmin fold. The children of such marriages have generally acquired the caste of the mother. Iyers follow one of the four Vedas - Rig Veda‚ Sama Veda‚ Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Veda that an Iyer follows forms an important part of his identity‚ another being the gotra that he belongs to. The gotra is the name of the rishi who founded the clan one is born into. A woman belongs to gotra of her father
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e Harappan times; the composition of the early Rig Vedic hymns; the Epic Period during which the Ramayana and Mahabharata were composed; period of Sage Vishvamitra‚ in whose reign a majority of the Vedic hymns were composed; the Yajur and Atharva Vedas were composed around 2400 BC; the Bhagwad Gita was compiled between BC 500-200; Nyaya‚ Sankhya‚ and Brahma Sutras were recorded‚ which later gave birth to six popular schools of Hindu philosophy and final versions of Puranas‚ Tantras and other sectarian literature were developed (200-750 AD)
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