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Research Topics on: vedic literature

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Books on: vedic literature

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Journal Articles on: vedic literature

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Magazine Articles on: vedic literature

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Newspaper Articles on: vedic literature

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    Hindu Teacher Given Award
    Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, March 6, 1997
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Athavale was born in 1920 into the Brahman class. His grandfather and father were both teachers of classic Vedic, or Hindu, literature and traditions. Though a popular teacher of the Bhagavad Gita since age 23, Mr. Athavale gained an international...
     
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    Saris Reflect Hindu Values; Garment Stands Test of Time
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 14, 2008
    Subjects: 
    Clothing, Clothing and dress, Hinduism
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...in the garment, which dates back at least 40 centuries. The magazine says the sari can be traced to Sanskrit literature in the Vedic period (2000 B.C.-1000 B.C.), which specified that women wear pleats tucked at the waist, the front...
     
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    When the Ancient Gods Came Back
    Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, March 25, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of the lighter moments in "Literature and the Gods," a collection...Calassos take on the state of literature - where the old gods now exclusively...importance . . . " The ancient Vedic texts lead back to shared roots...vibrant oceanic expanse that the Vedic seers thought of as the mind...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: vedic literature

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    Sanskrit Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    SANSKRIT LITERATURE literary works written...two main periods the Vedic (c.1500 c.200...200 b.c.) of the Vedic period. They are treatises dealing with Vedic ritual and customary...aphoristic form of the past literature, which by this time...
     
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    Buddhist Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    BUDDHIST LITERATURE During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the...M. Cummings, Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia (1982...
     
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    Veda
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...all Hindus. The Veda is the literature of the Aryans who invaded NW...constituted their religion. The Vedic hymns were probably first compiled...religious ideas. The end of the Vedic period is about 500 b.c...poets ( rishis ). Types of Vedic Literature Composed according...
     
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    Yoga
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rebirth. More specifically it is also the name of one of the six orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy . Both Vedic and Buddhist literature discuss the doctrines of wandering ascetics in ancient India who practiced various kinds of austerities and...
     
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    Aryan
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...had been attributed solely to the Aryan invaders. The idealization of conquest pictured in the Vedic hymns was incorporated into Nazi racist literature, in which German descent was supposedly traced back to Aryan forebears...
     

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