[ASIA 308] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 48 pages long Study Guide!
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Classical hindu: 200 bce to 500 ce (sightseeing in early india; think it as visiting a mahabharata museum) 185 bce- 300 ce: a time of political flux. - regional political control by shungas (collapsed around 70 bce), satavahanas, indo-greeks (bactrians) (and cholas, cheras, pandyas in the south) and other smaller kingdoms and tribes. - incursions by central asian forces from the northwest: kushanas (yuezhi), shakas (scythians), parthians. - this was the time period when the two epics (mahabharata and ramayana) were thought to be composed (think it as responding to early buddhism) - c. 300: rise of the imperial guptas in magadha. -forged through marriage alliances, large-scale land grants to (hindu, buddhist, jain) temples & monasteries, strategic control of roads and trade networks, patronage of art and culture (including sanskrit poetry and drama) Sanskrit cosmopolism: influential in the next 1000 years. The (cid:862)(cid:449)orldl(cid:455)(cid:863) hi(cid:374)du traditio(cid:374) (cid:894)pravritti): vedic ritual & brahmanical varna-asrama system carries on (since 1500 bce)
