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The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedicism or Vedism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, [a] constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (c. 1500–500 BCE).
The "circum-Vedic" texts, as well as the redaction of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000 –500 BCE, resulting in a Vedic period, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. [note 7] The Vedic period reaches its peak only after the composition of the mantra texts, with the establishment of the various ...
Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BCE) 1000 – 300 BCE: Kanchi district, gold mine of Megalithic sites in Tamil Nadu, South India [21] 1000- 900 BCE Kingdom of the Videhas was established. 1000- 900 BCE Pañcāla Kingdom was established. 970 BCE Dridhasena became the 18th ruler of the Barhadratha dynasty of Magadha succeeding Susuma 912 BCE
The late Vedic period (9th to 6th centuries BCE) marks the beginning of the Upanisadic or Vedantic period. [ web 4 ] [ note 11 ] [ 71 ] [ note 12 ] This period heralded the beginning of much of what became classical Hinduism, with the composition of the Upanishads , [ 73 ] later the Sanskrit epics , still later followed by the Puranas .
The first period is the pre-Vedic period, which includes the Indus Valley Civilization and local pre-historic religions. Northern India had the Vedic period with the introduction of the historical Vedic religion (sometimes called Vedic Hinduism or ancient Hinduism [d]) by the Indo-Aryan migrations, starting somewhere between 1900 BCE and 1400 BCE.
"Vedic timeline" may refer to [dubious – discuss] the Vedic period of Indian prehistory (mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BC) the relative chronology of Vedic Sanskrit in historical linguistics; the mythological chronology associated with the Sanskrit epics; traditional Hindu units of time
The Upanishads (/ ʊ ˈ p ʌ n ɪ ʃ ə d z /; [1] Sanskrit: उपनिषद्, IAST: Upaniṣad, pronounced [ˈʊpɐnɪʂɐd]) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" [2] and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.