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What is the difference between pre vedic and post vedic society?
In the pre-vedic period ‘Family’ was the basic unit of society and the ‘Father’ was the head of the family. During the post-vedic period the Gotra system and Ashrama system started. The position of the women was lowered and were deprived of education and political involvement.
What is the difference between Vedas and Puranas?
The Vedas are a large body of religious texts composed in Vedic Sanskrit and are widely regarded as the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. The Puranas are a vast collection of Indian literature that cover a wide range of topics, such as legends and traditional folklore.
What is Vedic Age Short answer?
The early Vedic age is historically dated to the second half of the second millennium BCE. Historically, after the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which occurred around 1900 BCE, groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated into north-western India and started to inhabit the northern Indus Valley.
Why is Vedic Age so called?
It gets its name from the Vedas, which are liturgical texts containing details of life during this period that have been interpreted to be historical[1]and constitute the primary sources for understanding the period.
What is the Vedic Age known for?
The Vedic Age of Ancient India is the “heroic age” of ancient Indian civilization. It is also the formative period when the basic foundations of Indian civilization were laid down. These include the emergence of early Hinduism as the foundational religion of India, and the social/religious phenomenon known as caste.
What are the different periods of Vedic education?
Some scholars have sub divided Vedic Educational period into Rig Veda period, Brahmani period, Upanishada period, Sutra (Hymn) period, Smriti period etc but all these period, due to predominance of the Vedas, there was no change in the aims and ideals of educations.
What is the difference between the original Puranas and later genealogies?
The original Puranas comes from the priestly roots while the later genealogies have the warrior and epic roots. These texts were collected for the “second time between the fourth and sixth centuries CE under the rule of the Gupta kings”, a period of Hindu renaissance.
When did the Purana period start and end?
Purana Manuscripts from 1st- to 2nd-century. The word Puranas (/pʊˈrɑːnəz/; Sanskrit: पुराण, purāṇa) literally means “ancient, old”, and it is a vast genre of Indian literature about a wide range of topics, particularly myths, legends and other traditional lore.
What are the main features of the Puranic literature?
The Puranic literature is encyclopedic, and it includes diverse topics such as cosmogony, cosmology, genealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, grammar, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and philosophy.