India’s culture life
Taylor Bowers and Jasmine
McKinnnon
Indian Epics
• Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in
the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called
Kavya. The cause of Indian epics were to let
Indians record their greatest epics which were
traditionally passed down orally for many
centuries. The two greatest epic poems of
India were Ramayana and Mahabharata.
RAMAYANA
Ramayana was the tale of Rama, an incarnation of
God Vishnu. It depicts the workings of relationships,
portraying ideal characters like the ideal father,
servant, wife and king.
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http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/sanskrit/indian-epics/
http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/sanskrit/indian-epics/mahabharata.html
http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/sanskrit/indian-epics/mahabharata.html
https://freemanpedia.wikispaces.com/Organization+and+Reorganization+of+Human
Societies+(600+BCE-600CE)
MAHABHARATA
Mahabharata is the tale of a great war
between two royal houses. It discusses
the four “goals of life”. It is the longest
known epic poem and is known to be the
longest poem ever written.
Indian Agriculture
• Indian agriculture styles where pillars of
Ashoka.
• Pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns
displayed throughout the northern Indian
subcontinent.
• The pillars of Ashoka were inscribed with
Buddhist teachings.
Pillars of Ashoka
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• http://quizlet.com/23402132/period-2-600bce-to-600-ce-flash-cards/
Vedic age
• The Vedic age changed what the Indians
Religion was; which was Buddhism.
• The Vedic age came in at the end of the Indus
Civilization which was through 2500-1500
B.C.E
• 1000 years after 1500 B.C.E it was divided into
the early and late Vedic age because of the
differences between the two cultures.
Buddhism
• Buddhism was India’s main religion.
• When the writing of the Upanishads was
written Buddhism and Jainism was emerged
together.
• The Upanishads was are a collection of Vedic
texts, which contain the earliest emergence of
some of the central religious concepts
of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.