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SOUTH ASIA
           ANCIENT INDIA
INDO-ARYAN- 1500 BCE INVADED INDIAN
              PENINSULA
    - CAUCASIAN WHITE PEOPLE
    - PROBABLY FROM CENTRAL ASIA
    - OCCUPIED NORTH OF VINDHYA RANGE
  AND WEST OF THE YAMUNA RIVER.
    - MOST FERTILE AREA , ENJOYED THE
  BOUNTIES OF NATURE.
ANIMISM – WORSHIP OF NATURE
 HINDU DIETIES
  1. INDRA – GOD OF STORM
• 2. AGNI – GOD OF FIRE
• 3. KALI – GODDESS OF MOTHERHOOD
• 4. GANESHA – GOD OF THE ELEPHANT
• 5. LAKSMI – GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK
• VASANTI – GODDESS OF MERRIMENT
• ALL IN ALL, ABOUT 300 MILLION GODS
ARYA –MEANS “GREAT” OR “PURE” IN
     THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE
• - LINGUISTIC TERM , USED TO INDICATE
      GROUP OF PEOPLE OR RACE
• SANSKRIT – A LANGUAGE BELONGING TO THE
•       INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGE
• - CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF INDIAN
      LITERATURE
• - HINDI AND BENGALI (MODERN LANGUAGE)
SINDHU – REFERING TO THE INDUS
               RIVER
• HIGHLY SKILLED IN VARIOUS ARTS AND
  SCIENCES SEEN IN THEIR SUPERB BOAT
  BUILDING AND EXPERTISE IN METAL
  HANDICRAFTS.
• SKILLED POTTERS, CARPENTERS, MASONS.
  SILVERSMITHS AND WEAVERS.
• HARDY FARMERS AND HERDERS
• VALIANT WARRIOR
TRANSFORMED THE PRIMITIVE INDIAN
    SOCIETY BY INTRODUCING:
• A. VEDIC LITERATURE
• B. SANSKRIT LANGUAGE
• C. HINDU RELIGION
• D. CASTE SYSTEM
- THE ARYANS REGARDED THE DRAVIDIANS
  INFERIOR, FROM NORTH DRIVEN TO SOUTH
- RACIAL STOCK PRESENTLY CONSTITUTE A
  LARGE GROUP IN SOUTH INDIA TODAY
ARYAN SOCIETY
• A TRIBAL SOCIETY HEADED BY A CHEIFTAIN
  CALLED PANCHAYAT
• THE MEMBER OF EACH TRIBE WERE
  BOUNDED TOGETHER BY STRONG FAMILY TIES
• PRACTICED SYSTEM OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY
• A CULTURE DOMINATED BY MALE
• THEIR GOD’S ARE MOSTLY MALE AND
  WARRIOR
UPANISHAD
• -DEVELOPED IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 800 TO
  600 B.C.E
• -A COLLECTION OF VEDAS, WHICH WERE
  WRITING DESCRIBING THE CONCEPTS OF
  RIGHT AND WRONG, UNIVERSAL ORDER, AND
  HUMAN DESTINY.
• - CONTAINED THE BASIC PERCEPTS OF
  HINDUISM, THE IDEA OF KARMA AND OTHER
  TEACHINGS LIKE BRAHMANISM
VEDA – A COLLECTION OF SACRED
WRITINGS, THAT GAVE INFORMATION
ON THE SOCIAL PRACTICES, RELIGIOUS
 BELIEFS, AND LEVEL OF CULTURE
 ATTAINED DURING THE INTERMINGLING
 OF THE ARYAN AND DRAVIDIAN
 CULTURES.
THESE SACRED WRITING, CALLED VEDIC
 LITERATURE, WERE MADE UP OF FOUR
 BOOKS NAMELY:
1. VEDAS
• - A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BATTLE
  HYMNS, SACRED RITUALS, SAYINGS AND TALES.
• - DESCRIPTION CONCERNING THE ARYAN WAY OF
  LIFE FROM 1500 B.C.E. UNTIL 500 B.C.E.
• - THIS PERIOD CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE
  VEDIC PERIOD
• - TEACHINGS WHICH WERE PRIMARILY RELIGIOUS
  IN NATURE BASED ON HYMNS, POETRY AND
  TALES.
FOUR BOOKS WHICH MADE UP THE
            VEDAS
• A. RIG VEDA – BOOK OF LYRICAL HYMNS IN
  PRAISE OF THE GODS.
• B. ATHARVA VEDA – BOOK OF MAGICAL
  FORMULAS
• C. SAMA VEDA – BOOK OF RELIGIOUS CHANTS
• D. YAJUR VEDA – BOOK OF SACRIFICIAL
  PRAYERS
2. BRAHMANAS – PROSE TEXTS
  CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON
• RELIGIOUS RIGHTS AND SACRIFICES.
• 3. ARANKAYAS – RELIGIOUS AND
  PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS COMPOSED FOR
  THE HERMITS OF THE FOREST.
• 4. UPANISHAD – ARE MORAL
  INSTRUCTIONS FOR FULLY
  UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENCE OF
  UNIVERSAL TRUTH.
MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA
• - TWO GREATEST EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA
• - THESE SANSKRIT EPIC POEMS SPEAK OF
  ANCIENT INDIA’S LEGENDARY TALES.
1. MAHABHARATA – LONGEST EPIC POEM IN
    WORLD LITERATURE.
    - TELLS THE STORY OF THE HEROIC
    STRUGGLES OF THE FIVE PANDAVA
    BROTHERS TO RECOVER THEIR FATHER’S
    THRONE AGAINST THEIR WICKED COUSINS.
BHAGAVAD GITA – (LORD’S SONG)
    WORLD’S LOFTIEST PHILOSOPHICAL POEM

• 2.RAMAYANA – THE STORY OF THE
  STRUGGLES OF A PRINCE NAMED RAMA
  BELIEVED TO BE AN INCARNATION OF THE
  HINDU GOD VISHNU

• HINDUISM FLOURISHED AND SET THE WAY OF
  LIFE IN THE INDIAN CONTINENT. IT IS RELATED
  TO CASTE SYSTEM
CASTE SYSTEM
• - THE SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS WHICH FORMED
  PART OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY’S CUSTOMARY
  LAWS.
• - THE BRAINCHILD OF HINDUISM
• UNTOUCHABLES – THOSE WHO DID NOT
  BELONG TO ANY CASTE (OUTCASTS)
•     - THEY LIVE MISERABLY IN THEIR OWN
  SECTION OF VILLAGE OR CITY
HINDUISM
• - OLDEST RELIGION IN ASIA
• - BRAHMA – THE CHIEF GOD “WORLD SOUL”
• “MAN CAN ATTAIN TRUE HAPPINESS IF HIS
  SOUL MERGES WITH THAT OF BRAHMA”
• REINCARNATION –IS THE TRANSMIGRATION
  OF SOUL
• NIRVANA – THE STATE OF HAPPINESS ( NO
  ONE CAN ATTAIN HAPPINESS UNLESS A MAN
  UNITES HIS SOUL WITH BRAHMA
According to reincarnation
• “ THE SOUL OF A GOOD MAN IS REBORN IN A
  PERSON OF HIGHER STATUS, WHILE AN EVIL
  PERSON IS REBORN IN A LOWER
  CREATURE, LIKE A DOG, PIG, OR A TIGER.
  AFTER THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATHS, THE
  SOUL OF A GOOD MAN IS FINALLY REWARDED
  BY MERGING WITH THAT OF BRAHMA.”
FAMOUS TRINITY OF HINDU GODS
BRAHMA – THE CREATOR
VISHNU – THE PRESERVER
SIVA – THE DESTROYER
THE HINDU BELIEVED THAT THESE GODS
  SYMBOLIZED THE THREE STAGES OF LIFE
  WHICH ARE CREATION, PRESERVATION
  AND DEATH.

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South asia

  • 1. SOUTH ASIA ANCIENT INDIA INDO-ARYAN- 1500 BCE INVADED INDIAN PENINSULA - CAUCASIAN WHITE PEOPLE - PROBABLY FROM CENTRAL ASIA - OCCUPIED NORTH OF VINDHYA RANGE AND WEST OF THE YAMUNA RIVER. - MOST FERTILE AREA , ENJOYED THE BOUNTIES OF NATURE.
  • 2. ANIMISM – WORSHIP OF NATURE HINDU DIETIES 1. INDRA – GOD OF STORM • 2. AGNI – GOD OF FIRE • 3. KALI – GODDESS OF MOTHERHOOD • 4. GANESHA – GOD OF THE ELEPHANT • 5. LAKSMI – GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK • VASANTI – GODDESS OF MERRIMENT • ALL IN ALL, ABOUT 300 MILLION GODS
  • 3. ARYA –MEANS “GREAT” OR “PURE” IN THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE • - LINGUISTIC TERM , USED TO INDICATE GROUP OF PEOPLE OR RACE • SANSKRIT – A LANGUAGE BELONGING TO THE • INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGE • - CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF INDIAN LITERATURE • - HINDI AND BENGALI (MODERN LANGUAGE)
  • 4. SINDHU – REFERING TO THE INDUS RIVER • HIGHLY SKILLED IN VARIOUS ARTS AND SCIENCES SEEN IN THEIR SUPERB BOAT BUILDING AND EXPERTISE IN METAL HANDICRAFTS. • SKILLED POTTERS, CARPENTERS, MASONS. SILVERSMITHS AND WEAVERS. • HARDY FARMERS AND HERDERS • VALIANT WARRIOR
  • 5. TRANSFORMED THE PRIMITIVE INDIAN SOCIETY BY INTRODUCING: • A. VEDIC LITERATURE • B. SANSKRIT LANGUAGE • C. HINDU RELIGION • D. CASTE SYSTEM - THE ARYANS REGARDED THE DRAVIDIANS INFERIOR, FROM NORTH DRIVEN TO SOUTH - RACIAL STOCK PRESENTLY CONSTITUTE A LARGE GROUP IN SOUTH INDIA TODAY
  • 6. ARYAN SOCIETY • A TRIBAL SOCIETY HEADED BY A CHEIFTAIN CALLED PANCHAYAT • THE MEMBER OF EACH TRIBE WERE BOUNDED TOGETHER BY STRONG FAMILY TIES • PRACTICED SYSTEM OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY • A CULTURE DOMINATED BY MALE • THEIR GOD’S ARE MOSTLY MALE AND WARRIOR
  • 7. UPANISHAD • -DEVELOPED IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 800 TO 600 B.C.E • -A COLLECTION OF VEDAS, WHICH WERE WRITING DESCRIBING THE CONCEPTS OF RIGHT AND WRONG, UNIVERSAL ORDER, AND HUMAN DESTINY. • - CONTAINED THE BASIC PERCEPTS OF HINDUISM, THE IDEA OF KARMA AND OTHER TEACHINGS LIKE BRAHMANISM
  • 8. VEDA – A COLLECTION OF SACRED WRITINGS, THAT GAVE INFORMATION ON THE SOCIAL PRACTICES, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND LEVEL OF CULTURE ATTAINED DURING THE INTERMINGLING OF THE ARYAN AND DRAVIDIAN CULTURES. THESE SACRED WRITING, CALLED VEDIC LITERATURE, WERE MADE UP OF FOUR BOOKS NAMELY:
  • 9. 1. VEDAS • - A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BATTLE HYMNS, SACRED RITUALS, SAYINGS AND TALES. • - DESCRIPTION CONCERNING THE ARYAN WAY OF LIFE FROM 1500 B.C.E. UNTIL 500 B.C.E. • - THIS PERIOD CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE VEDIC PERIOD • - TEACHINGS WHICH WERE PRIMARILY RELIGIOUS IN NATURE BASED ON HYMNS, POETRY AND TALES.
  • 10. FOUR BOOKS WHICH MADE UP THE VEDAS • A. RIG VEDA – BOOK OF LYRICAL HYMNS IN PRAISE OF THE GODS. • B. ATHARVA VEDA – BOOK OF MAGICAL FORMULAS • C. SAMA VEDA – BOOK OF RELIGIOUS CHANTS • D. YAJUR VEDA – BOOK OF SACRIFICIAL PRAYERS
  • 11. 2. BRAHMANAS – PROSE TEXTS CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON • RELIGIOUS RIGHTS AND SACRIFICES. • 3. ARANKAYAS – RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS COMPOSED FOR THE HERMITS OF THE FOREST. • 4. UPANISHAD – ARE MORAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FULLY UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENCE OF UNIVERSAL TRUTH.
  • 12. MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA • - TWO GREATEST EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA • - THESE SANSKRIT EPIC POEMS SPEAK OF ANCIENT INDIA’S LEGENDARY TALES. 1. MAHABHARATA – LONGEST EPIC POEM IN WORLD LITERATURE. - TELLS THE STORY OF THE HEROIC STRUGGLES OF THE FIVE PANDAVA BROTHERS TO RECOVER THEIR FATHER’S THRONE AGAINST THEIR WICKED COUSINS.
  • 13. BHAGAVAD GITA – (LORD’S SONG) WORLD’S LOFTIEST PHILOSOPHICAL POEM • 2.RAMAYANA – THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLES OF A PRINCE NAMED RAMA BELIEVED TO BE AN INCARNATION OF THE HINDU GOD VISHNU • HINDUISM FLOURISHED AND SET THE WAY OF LIFE IN THE INDIAN CONTINENT. IT IS RELATED TO CASTE SYSTEM
  • 14. CASTE SYSTEM • - THE SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS WHICH FORMED PART OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY’S CUSTOMARY LAWS. • - THE BRAINCHILD OF HINDUISM • UNTOUCHABLES – THOSE WHO DID NOT BELONG TO ANY CASTE (OUTCASTS) • - THEY LIVE MISERABLY IN THEIR OWN SECTION OF VILLAGE OR CITY
  • 15. HINDUISM • - OLDEST RELIGION IN ASIA • - BRAHMA – THE CHIEF GOD “WORLD SOUL” • “MAN CAN ATTAIN TRUE HAPPINESS IF HIS SOUL MERGES WITH THAT OF BRAHMA” • REINCARNATION –IS THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOUL • NIRVANA – THE STATE OF HAPPINESS ( NO ONE CAN ATTAIN HAPPINESS UNLESS A MAN UNITES HIS SOUL WITH BRAHMA
  • 16. According to reincarnation • “ THE SOUL OF A GOOD MAN IS REBORN IN A PERSON OF HIGHER STATUS, WHILE AN EVIL PERSON IS REBORN IN A LOWER CREATURE, LIKE A DOG, PIG, OR A TIGER. AFTER THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATHS, THE SOUL OF A GOOD MAN IS FINALLY REWARDED BY MERGING WITH THAT OF BRAHMA.”
  • 17. FAMOUS TRINITY OF HINDU GODS BRAHMA – THE CREATOR VISHNU – THE PRESERVER SIVA – THE DESTROYER THE HINDU BELIEVED THAT THESE GODS SYMBOLIZED THE THREE STAGES OF LIFE WHICH ARE CREATION, PRESERVATION AND DEATH.