ASIAN M60W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atharvaveda, Yajurveda, Vedic Sanskrit
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Transnational since the beginning of the common era. Sri lanka and se asia, except vietnam. Himalayas and northern asia, tibet and mongolia. A major settlement of the indus valley civilization. Developed from long-term settlements in the area due to improvements in technology, craft industries, and trade control. Give a little information about the civilization, but hard to decipher. Arya means noble, and an inhabitant of aryavarta. Different technologies, herding (cows as wealth), clan-based organizations, vedic religious practices, old indo-aryan spoken, other dravidian language groups pushed south. A designation based on a groups of texts (1700 to 500 bce) Represent groups within mainstream vedic practice and outside it. Brahman as an all-pervasive reality underlying the universe. Karma as individual action in all areas of life. What is the relationship between self and larger lifeforce. Agni (fire, the messenger of the gods) Classes affected marriage opportunities, work, purity issues, food, punishment. Karma as a vedic ritual action only.
