ARTSSCI 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Upanishads, Vedas, Dharma
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With regards to the midterm, only those quotations used on the slide will be on the mid-term. Buddhism and jainism situate themselves within the larger tradition of hinduism, brahmanic and vedic religion. Understanding the debate between leading life in an engaged versus renunciate fashion is key. The origins of the vedic period are somewhat blurry but one could but it at roughly 1700-800 bce, with the a(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:448)al of the a(cid:396)(cid:455)a(cid:374)s o(cid:374) the ga(cid:374)geti(cid:272) pla(cid:374). The(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot a ho(cid:373)ogenous group and have a proto-religion of sorts. The sub-continent was not empty when they arrived but occupied by a group of people called. The language of the aryans was sanskrit from which much of northern indian language originates (hindi, urdu, bengali, etc). The languages presently south of the subcontinent (tamil, kannada, The vedas comprised the key texts at the time. Rgveda, which include hymns to gods like indra, agni. 800bce 0ce is (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s called brahmanic religion.