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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 Vedic god Indra in part corresponds to Dyaus Pitar, the Sky Father, Zeus, Jupiter, Thor and Tyr, or Perun. The deity Yama, the lord of the dead, is hypothesized to be related to Yima of Persian mythology. Vedic hymns refer to these and other deities, often 33, consisting of 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, 12 Adityas, and in the late Rigvedas, Prajapati ...
Bryant, Edwin (2001), The Quest for the Origins of Vedic culture, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513777-9; Kochhar, Rajesh (2000), The Vedic People: Their History and Geography, Sangam Books; Müller-Karpe, Hermann (1983), Jungbronzezeitlich-früheisenzeitliche Gräberfelder der Swat-Kultur in Nord-Pakistan, Beck, ISBN 3406301541
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 Indo-Aryan Vedic civilization and main polities in Eurasia around 1300 BCE. Iron Age India (c. 1800 – c. 200 BCE) Vedic civilization (c. 1700 – c. 600 BCE) Black and red ware culture (c. 1500 –700 BCE) in Western Ganges plain [5] Northern Black Polished Ware (c. 1200 –500 BCE) [6] Painted Grey Ware culture (c. 1200 or 700–300 BCE) [7]
The Vedic period was the time duration between 1500 and 500 BCE. The garments worn in the Vedic period mainly included a single cloth wrapped around the whole body and draped over the shoulder. People used to wear the lower garment called paridhana which was pleated in front and used to tie with a belt called mekhala and an upper garment called ...
The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. [1] [2] [3] The earliest mentioned location of the Bharatas was on the Sarasvatī River. Led by the tribal king Divodāsa , the Bharatas moved through the Hindu Kush mountains and defeated Śambara.
The Vedic period reaches from the late Bronze Age into the Iron Age: from about 1500 BCE to the 6th century BCE. With the rise of sixteen Mahajanapadas ("great janapadas"), most of the states were annexed by more powerful neighbours, although some remained independent.