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The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" [2] and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas. [3][4] Only one Shakha of the many survive today, namely the Śakalya ...
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Only one version of the Rigveda is known to have survived into the modern era. [130] Several different versions of the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda are known, and many different versions of the Yajur Veda have been found in different parts of South Asia. [143] The texts of the Upanishads discuss ideas akin to the heterodox sramana-traditions ...
This article is about the biblical genealogy of Jesus. For the article about claims to a genealogical descent from the historical Jesus, see Jesus bloodline. The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1 ] Matthew starts with Abraham and works forwards ...
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. 1353 BC or 1351 BC: The beginning of the reign of Akhenaten, sometimes credited with starting the earliest known recorded monolatristic religion, in Ancient ...
An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text date to c. 1500 BC, [1] while the oldest known manuscripts date to c. 1040 AD. [2] Similarly the oldest Avestan texts, the Gathas, are believed to have been composed before 1000 BC, but the oldest Avestan manuscripts date from the 13th century AD. [3]
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.
1500-800 BCE [1] Shakhas. Vedic school. Each school taught a Veda in a specific way, over time evolving specific styles and emphasis, based on how / by whom / where it was taught. Brahmanas. Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [2] Upanishads.