Sanskrit

2.2. Pallava Grantha Script The Pallava rule in the Tamil country bought with it greater influence of Sanskrit culture. They devised a script around the 5th century CE for writing Sanskrit in the Tamil country. The need arouse because the tamil script does not have glyphs to represent a number of Sanskrit letters. The new script came to be known as the Pallava Grantha. Brahmi is the origin for Pallava Grantha, like all other scripts for native Indian languages. There is a lot of closeness of the Grantha script to the Malayalam script, and to some extent, to the Tamil script. Moreover, Pallava Grantha was the inspiration for the scripts of most of the South-east Asian languages like Javenese, Thai, Balinese, Khmer etc. All Sanskrit works that originated in the Tamil country came to be written exclusively in the Grantha script. The Grantha is in use among the Vedic scholars of Tamil Nadu even today,though its popularity is not as it existed in the past. Over the years, the Grantha script changed. The present day Grantha is very different from what was there in Pallava inscriptions.…

to the main room to observe the service and celebration. The majority of the people in the group if not all are of Indian ethnicity. They also seem to be middle class or higher and also very respectable people. Their lifestyle is similar to regular people as they carry a family, a job, and those related to a regular life. The average number at the service was about 40 and the majority were men but many of them had families so there is also a large number of women present. Along with families…

Indian literature assignment Name- EKALAVYA CHADHA JSLH 2015 ID NO- 20155034 Question Q1) Name the two ancient epics written in Sanskrit and who were their authors? In the Bhagvad Gita what does Krishna explain to Arjun? A1)…

Dharma can be summed up as the ideal life, in which no harm is inflicted on anybody. Opposed to the actual human behavior seen in modern caste system, which lends itself to violence in both the workplace and schools. 2) How have sacred texts helped shape the popular worldview? The Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita have been extremely influential and shaping both secular and religious worldviews. As seen by the masses last night, Sanskrit, the holy language in the text, was written on the instruments…

Amongst the enormous corpus of Hindu literature, Mahabharata stands out as a text of great magnitude, originally comprising of 100,000 Sanskrit shlokas, say about 2 million words. ‘Vedvyasya’, the author of Mahabharata has weaved a plethora of characters in this great Hindu epic, through which he takes the reader through every conceivable human emotion and situation, thus making it possible to identify with it even today. It even boasts, ‘What is here is found elsewhere. What is not here is…

India has a glorious history of drama from the ancient times. Drama begins its journey in India with the Sanskrit plays. Indian drama is characterized with the rituals, folks, cultural heritage etc. But the major concern of contemporary Indian drama is the representation of socio-political scenario, marginalization, gender discrimination, oppression, poverty and hunger. A general consensus seems to have emerged that though the social criticism, corruption, oppression, gender discrimination can…

During the Vedic Age (1500 – 1000 BCE), the Indo-Aryans, a group of nomadic people, were able to bring their many traditions and practices into the Northern region of India. This migration was done willingly and played a substantial role in the development of the Indian language “Sanskrit”. This language is used today by religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism. Within the languages the Indo-Aryans brought forth to Northern India were “poetry, hymns, prayers, and heavily allegorical…

Indian literature assignment Question Q1) Name the two ancient epics written in Sanskrit and who were their authors? In the Bhagvad Gita what does Krishna explain to Arjun? A1) The two ancient epics written in Sanskrit are a) Ramayana b) Mahabharata Ramayana is written by Valmiki, and Mahabharata is written by Vyasa. B) What does Krishna explain to arjuna? Ans b) Bhagavad Gita All through the ages, religions have utilized myths or stories to clarify or guide the human experience. For…

The problem that I have chosen to tackle is the fraudulent manipulation of religion and religious values among the illiterate population in India by self acclaimed “god men (and women)” and other “godly” people. These words usually represent people who either have godly powers or can talk to God. They are often referred to as ‘baba’, ‘maharaj’, ‘pandit’, etc. I have chosen Krishna and Dante to deal with this problem. Since the majority of the population in India follows the religion that is…

but rather a lifelong quest and journey that one must pursue in order to find knowledge and find a deeper connection with one’s self in relation to Brahman. In Hindu culture, after enough lifetimes of practicing and living through good karmic deeds, your reward is eternal paradise and knowledge of the self. After examining these two texts as well as other outside sources, a logical statement suggests that Buddhism is a direct offspring from Hinduism due to their striking similarities but at the…