These can be found in the four Vedas - Rigveda‚ Yajurveda‚ Samaveda and Atharvaveda. They also wrote long poems about their bravery and the battles which they fought. These poems were later collected and became the two epics of ancient India - the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha. 2) Early Vedic Aryans were organised into tribes rather than kingdoms. The chief of a tribe was called a rajan. The autonomy of the rajan was restricted by the tribal councils called sabha and samiti. The two bodies were responsible
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Sustainable tourism: learning from Indian religious traditions Vasanti Gupta Director of Insight India‚ Headington‚ Oxford‚ UK Keywords Ethics‚ Green issues‚ India‚ Tourism The context Pilgrimage to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion is an age-old tradition‚ followed by religions all over the world. The fact that it is often carried out on foot‚ is an older form and has many religious connotations‚ has made people overlook it as a form of tourism. Apart from the devotional
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Diwali is the festival of lights. It is also known as’ Deepawali’. It is celebrated in our country which joy and happiness every year. It is one of the biggest festival of Hindus. Usually it comes in the month of October and November after twenty days of Dussehra‚ on the 13th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin. It is celebrated in the memory of coming back home of Lord Rama along with his wife Sita & brother Laxman after 14 years of exile. It is believed that on this day‚ Lord Rama
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The Wat Phra Kaew (Thai: วัดพระแก้ว‚ RTGS: Wat Phra Kaeo‚ IPA: [wát pʰráʔ kɛ̂ːw]‚ Pronunciation‚ English: Temple of the Emerald Buddha; full official name Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram‚ Thai: วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม‚ IPA: [wát pʰráʔ sǐː rát.ta.náʔ sàːt.sa.daː.raːm]) is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple (wat) in Thailand. It is a "potent religio-political symbol and the palladium [safeguard] of Thai society".[1] It is located in the historic centre of Bangkok (district Phra Nakhon)‚ within
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in a position to mobilize themselves on issues that can affect their overall position. |[pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] | The latest news items regarding violence committed against women reveal that women’s position has worsened. Tulsidas’ verse from Ramayana ’Dhol‚ janwar‚ shudra‚ pashu‚ nari ye sub nindan ke adhikari’ highlights the discrimination and deep-rooted gender bias which still exists in all sectors on the basis of caste‚ community‚ religious affiliation and class. The Constitution of India
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In the past in Java and Bali‚ royal courts or rich persons were major patrons of the arts. They continue their support‚ but other institutions joined them. The Dutch founded the Batavia Society for the Arts and Sciences in 1778‚ which established the National Museum that continues to display artifacts of the national culture. The Dutch-founded National Archive seeks to preserve the literary heritage‚ despite poor funding and the hazards of tropical weather and insects. Over the past several decades
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Name: Abhay Malviya Roll no.11009 "Language and Religion" Introduction Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication‚ and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. A religion is an organized collection of beliefs‚ cultural systems‚ and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Religion may or may not have God or deities. What makes religion an organized
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Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) Contributing Editor: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Classroom Issues and Strategies It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her
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Nashik ( pronunciation (help·info))[1] is a city in Maharashtra‚ India. Nashik is located in the northwest of Maharashtra‚ 171 km (106 mi) from Mumbai and 210 km (130 mi) from Pune. Nashik is the administrative headquarters of Nashik district and Nashik Division. Nashik is located in the Western Ghats‚ on the western edge of the Deccan peninsula on the banks of river Godavari. The Nassak Diamond‚ derives its name from the fact that it long remained in the Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple‚ near Nashik
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Lord Shiva‚ meaning the Auspicious One is Sanskrit‚ is a highly worshipped deity in Hinduism. In Hindu mythology‚ Brahma and Vishnu were born out of Lord Shiva and the three were separated into three different aspects of divinity. Shiva is the Destroyer God as he dissolves the universe for the next cycle of creation and destroys obstacles for his devotees. Today‚ Shaivism is a popular sect in Hinduism‚ predominantly in South India‚ where devotees believe Shiva is All and omnipresent. Lord Shiva
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