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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 ...
Vedic Heritage Portal is an Indian government project initiated at IGNCA, under the Ministry of Culture (India). It provides a portal to communicate messages enshrined in the Vedas and preserve Vedic heritage. [ 1 ]
Category for customs, rituals, traditions and beliefs in Vedic Hindu society. This may extend from ancient customs like Vedas , Yajna to many others as practiced in Hinduism. Subcategories
The Atharva veda has been a primary source for information about Vedic culture, the customs and beliefs, the aspirations and frustrations of everyday Vedic life, as well as those associated with kings and governance. The text also includes hymns dealing with the two major rituals of passage – marriage and cremation. The Atharva Veda also ...
Vedic religion or Vedic Hinduism may refer to: Historical Vedic religion, the religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period; Hinduism, which developed out of the merger of Vedic religion with numerous local religious traditions; Ĺrauta, surviving conservative traditions within Hinduism
Vasishtha is a revered sage in the Hindu traditions, and like other revered sages, numerous treatises composed in ancient and medieval era are reverentially named after him. [34] Some treatises named after him or attributed to him include: Vasishtha Samhita is a medieval era Yoga text. [35] There is an Agama as well with the same title.
Hymn 5.63 mentions "metal cloaked in gold", suggesting that metalworking had progressed in the Vedic culture. [ 53 ] Some of the names of gods and goddesses found in the Rigveda are found amongst other belief systems based on Proto-Indo-European religion , while most of the words used share common roots with words from other Indo-European ...