RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indus River, Devanagari, Vedas
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Different gods focused on in different regions. A hindu was anyone who was not something else. Refers to anything indigenously created or cultivated. Sanskrit is essential language of classical hindu tradition (devangari) (an oral language) Emphasis on human divine/cosmos relation (different permutations of this) A tradition that expresses history of accessibility. As traditions develop become more accessible to the people. Not a lot of information known about them. Aryan invasion theory (may have come from central asia: iran, turkey, india, May have or may not have been conflict (harappan swept away and aryan came in) Eternal sound (part of the cosmos) (comes from the universe) Shruti : what is heard , smriti: what is said. With the vedas get a sense of revelations (god send messages) When it is a revelation author considered to be divine. The earliest scriptures in the hindu tradition are oral compositions called shruti ( that which was heard")