Ganges

Since the beginning of time, civilizations have been established due to the geography and climate in a certain area. Civilizations tend to arise in regions that are inhabitable and capable of sustaining life (Nate Sullivan).Whether they were located close to the mountains or the deserts, every little aspect of their surrounding effected them culturally and politically. Hominids, which were two-legged pre-human predecessors were said to be the first humans on earth, however it was not till later…

4.2. The role in Religious ritual. Water plays an important role in the practices and beliefs of many religions since ancient times. Water is mainly used for cleansing and purifying in many of the religious rituals. The significance of it may differ from one religion to another. Its two qualities are being the source of life, and instrumentality of washing and cleaning. These underlie its place in every culture and faith. According to Eliade, water has more or less the same function in the…

The Mauryan Dynasty brought a temporary unification of India. Which new power arose and established a dynamic kingdom? The new power that arose and established a dynamic kingdom was that of Magadha. What type of society existed regarding gender? The type of society that existed regarding gender was that of Patriarchal. Who established the social classes in India? What were the social classes and who was included in each? What are jati? The Aryans established the social classes in India. As…

Energy is the fundamental component for the economic growth and welfare of a nation. Today, the world is facing energy crisis at an alarming rate due to rapid population growth and urbanisation which impediments the socio-economic development in the future. The increase in energy consumption particularly in the past several decades has led to the gradual exhaustion of non - renewable energy resources such as coal, crude oil and natural gas. It has also caused severe adverse environmental…

4 We reached Patna by late afternoon. We disembarked our bus at the Gandhi Bridge as it was known among the passengers. It is one of the longest bridges in the Asia built on the holy river, Ganges. It had made our journey pretty much comfortable. Earlier, it was a gigantic task to reach this city. You would have to use the ferries and boats to cross this mighty river. And it took many precious hours then. We put our bags and sacks of the grain on many men-drawn cycle rickshaws as it was the most…

Rivers are regarded with love and reverence and fig ure prominently in the epic and folk literature of India. K. R. Srinivas Iyenga r suggests that the river stirs “an attachment almost personal”, in the Indian: “The ri ver in India is a feminine power and personality and the land (and men living on it) must woo her and deserve her love if their hopes of fruitfulness and security are to be realized” (Iyengar 323). The 96 Narmada and the Ganga from the saptsindhu – group of seven major rivers –…

Question 1: Hinduism 1) The image shows a skull, becoming a baby, a boy, a teenager, a man, elderly, then a skull again and then it repeats into the distance. This depicts the Hindu belief of reincarnation because it is saying that after someone dies, they go through life again and start their new form after their death. The objects the boy stages, teen stages, and man stages are holding depict the different lessons you learn in life. The almost white line going through the bodies of all the…

grows more. The speaker is also using flattery in hopes of persuading her to give in to his request. He tells her he will spend thirty thousand years adoring her body, because he feels that she deserves that type of affection. “Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side/I by the tide of Humber would complain” (lines 5, 7). Here he continues to confess his love by telling the Mistress they could flirt and cuddle by many large areas such as the Humber river in North…

demographics of the population have varied over the country’s diverse 29 states. The Indian subcontinent covers 3.28 million kilometers with the range of geography including the Deccan Plateau, an upland plain in the south, flat to rolling plains along the Ganges river, the Thar desert in the west, and the Himalayas in the north. India is the world’s second most populated country with 1.3 billion people and the population is growing rapidly, which is the cause of many of the country’s health…

Death and the afterlife are two important topics in religions with most having different ideas about what happens when someone dies as well as where they go or become. Hinduism and Buddhism are often grouped together when discussing religions, however, when it comes to these topics they have very different ideas. At the surface they may seem similar to an outsider but when really studied it is obvious that they are two totally separate concepts. They have fragments of their thoughts and rites…