Introduction to indian
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INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE• 500 BC- CONSIDERABLE BODY
OF LITERATURE •COMMON ANCESTRAL
LANGUAGE- SANSKRIT – MEANS SACRED
•LIT. –CULTIVATION OF THE INNER AND OUTER LIFE OF A REMARKABLE PEOPLE
•EXTENDS FROM REMOTE PAST TO THE PRESENT
INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)
• EARLIEST IS VEDAS-COLLECTION OF OF TRADITIONS
HANDED DOWN BY WORD OF MOUTH
•HYMNS ADDRESSED TO THE HINDU gods WHO ARE VERY
NUMEROUS
•INDIA –CENTER OF AN ANCIENT CICVILIZATION, EAST AND SOUTH
INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)
•INFLUENCED THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF MANY COUNTRIES IN
BOTH EUROPE AND ASIA.•INDIAN CIVILIZATION IS OLDER THAN THAT OF THE ANCEINET GREEKSAND
ROMANS.SAVAGES , FOREST OF ENGLAND,FR, IT AND G INIDANS
ALREADY HAD A A HIGHLY DEVELOPED CIV.,PROD. MASTERPIECES IN THE
ARTS..
INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)
•INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION GREATLY INFLUENCED BOTH THE EAST AND THE WEST.•LONG BC, THEY WERE ALREADY
PREACHING BORTHER HOOD ANF FETHERHOOD OF GOD.
•INDIAN CULTURE HAS DISTINCTIVE AND INTERESTING
CULTURE
INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN LITERATURE (CONT’)
•INDIAN LIT.DEVELOPED 3 THOUS. YEARS AGO,, RICH IN SOPIRITUAL AND IMAGINATIVE
VALUES.
•I GAVE US TRIGONOMETRY, FIRST GRAMMAR BOOKS, STUDY OF PHONETICS AND THE GAME
OF CHESS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •IT IS BASED ON PIETY, A DEEPLY
RELIGIOUS SPIRIT.
•BELIEVED THAT AKNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND A SRONG BELIEF IN
HIMDUISM WILL SAVE MAN.
•THE EATRLIEST POEMS, THE VEDAS ARE THE BIBLE OF THE
INIDANS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE
•THE INDIAN LITERARY MASTERPIECES CORRESPONDS TO THE GREAT EPOCHS IN THEIR
HISTORY.
•MAHABHARATA , LONGEST EPIC IN WORLD LIT.
•BELIEF IN INCARANATION
•ABSTAIN INDESTRYO\ING PALANTS BECAUSE OF THIS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF
VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF RAMA.
•MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN
THE PERSON OF KRISHNA
•REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD
IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE
•NINE AVATARS HAVE BEEN TAKEN PLAE.NAD THE TENTH
STILL TO COME.
•WHEN THE 10TH COME, END OF THE WORLD AND RESTORE
PEACH AND UNITY.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – ADVENTURES OF
RAMA AND HIS WIFE SITA , CHILD OF MOTHER EARTH.
•PERFECT SYMBOL OF WIFELY DEVPTION AND SELF-SACRIFICE
FOR THE BELOVED.•MAHABHARATA- GRETSEST
EPIC OF INDIA.STORY OF CIVIL WAR IN THE EARLY YEARS OF
ARYYAN OCCUPATIONOF INDIA.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE •RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF
VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF RAMA.
•MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN
THE PERSON OF KRISHNA
•REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD
IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.
RAMAYANA – INCARNATION OF VISHNU, IN THE PERSON OF
RAMA.
MAHABHARATA- REINCARNATION OF VISHNU IN
THE PERSON OF KRISHNA
REINCAR. OF VIHSNU –AVATARS,APPEARANCE OF GOD IN THE FORM OF HUMAN BEINGS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE
•MAHABHARATA-TWO RIVAL BANDS OF BROTHERS,
DESCNEDANTS PF A COMMON GRANDFATHER, KING PANDA.
•WHEN HE DIED, HE LEFT HIS FIVE SONS IN THECARE OF HIS
BROTHER HWO WAS TO BE REGENT WHILE HIS SONS WER
STILL MINORS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN LITERATURE
•THE REGENT HIMSELF HAD MANY SONS AND THEY COVETED THE KINGDOM FOR THEMSELVES.
•THE RESULT WAS A PERIOD OF INTRIGUES AND MANY BATTLES
WHICH RESULTED IN THE EXILE OF THE FIVE BROTHERS.
•INTERESTINGLY, THE MRANAW EPIC DARANGAN HAS MANY ELEMENTS
AND EPISODES DERIVED FROM MAHABHARATA & RAMAYANA.