RELIGST 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indo-Gangetic Plain, Rigveda, Common Era

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3L03
• Professor: Joseph La Rose

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Midterm: drawn from slides that have been discussed in class, quotations . May choose a segment of a large quotation, only include one sentence of the quotation to identify. Identify quotation and include a few sentences of why its significant to the class. Aryans primarily perform sacrifice through fire: brahmanic period: (800 bce to turn of common era). 500-600 bce urbanization, new texts being written legal tradition . Production of such texts continues into first century of common era. Disappears in subcontinent: buddha is born into brahmanic family. By sacrificing properly in world you take a steady position in heaven, opposite winds you up in hell. It is assumed that you cycle through constantly.