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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).
Date Event 1000 BCE: 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 ...
1500 BC: The Vedic period began in India after the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation. 1500 BC – 1000 BC: The oldest of the Hindu Vedas (scriptures), the Rigveda was composed. [21] [22] [23] This is the first mention of Rudra, a fearsome form of Shiva as the supreme god.
Late Vedic era map showing the boundaries of Āryāvarta with Janapadas in northern India, beginning of Iron Age kingdoms in India – Kuru, Panchala, Kosala, Videha The Iron Age in the Indian subcontinent from about 1200 BCE to the 6th century BCE is defined by the rise of Janapadas, which are realms , republics and kingdoms —notably the ...
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.
The Epic-Puranic chronology has been referred to by proponents of Indigenous Aryans, putting into question the Indo-Aryan migrations at ca. 1500 BCE and proposing older dates for the Vedic period. According to the "Indigenist position", the Aryans are indigenous to India, [ 46 ] and the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in ...
The Rigveda, in Sanskrit, dates to this period and begins a period often known as the Vedic period. [92] Between 1500 and 500 BC these peoples spread throughout most of India and had begun to found small cities. [93] Vedic society was characterised by the varna system which