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Bharata Natyam is a style of classical Indian dance that originated in the temple of Brhadeshvar in the area of Tamil Nadu. This style of dance can be traced back to the Natya Shasta, a Sanskrit Hindu text, which was written sometime around the 1st century BCE – 3rd century CE. In this text, written by Bharata, where Bharata Natyam gets its name, is an outline of the different facets of Sanskrit Theatre. Although in the west typically associates theatre with drama, classical Sanskrit theatre…

Samsara is the cycle of life, death and rebirth which all beings are subject to. The Hindu religion believes in this, and believe that the their goal is to reach liberation and be one with Brahman. Reaching liberation means they have completed their cycle of reincarnation, or Samsara. They believe that they have to be the best of whatever…

universe. The Three Deity’s consist of Dharma the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. Hindus believe the supreme creator is Brahma. Meanwhile, Buddhism doesn’t believe in a supreme god. Buddhists pray to their founder Buddha who was a Hindu himself. The ultimate goal between a Buddhist…

Known as the Axial Age, the 6th century BC started the first day of 600BC and ended the last day of 501BC, representing a peak period in human history. If the media had existed, Sanskrit clay tablets would have read from UPI Babylon: Israelites Living in Captivity Return Home to Build Second Temple, Confucius and Laozi Teach New Ethical and Religious Ideas in China and on the home front: Mahavira Founds New Religion Jainism. The Buddha was born Prince Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal to the Sakyas…

The quoted excerpt exhibits an access to Brahmanical knowledge and the endeavour of the late eighteenth century Orientalists to represent and translate for the West the Hindu myths and legends which would have an impact on Coleridge. Coleridge had begun making references to India and its mythologies comparatively late in his career as a poet. His approach to India had been that of a traditional Platonist, an attitude which experienced a renaissance through the work of these Orientalists in the…

When it comes to the girl's role in the Hindu or Muslim culture, they must follow the tradition of wearing a hijab. The role they follow in their culture is seen as their social identity that the women go by to fit the norm of their culture. Although this tradition is a contrast to what is expected…

Beyoncé’s performance at the Grammy’s is a talked about performance that contain many influences from art. A one that initially standout after researching the influence and then re-watching the performance is the heavy influence from the love goddess Oshun. Oshun is associated with sweetness, kindness, generosity, and bountiful love. The MTV article written by Liz Raiss asked art historians, what they taught about Beyoncé’s usage of the reference to art history. The art historian named Cheryl…

Anantha Murthy’s Samskara is a religious novel. The novel exposes the conservative life style of the Kannada Brahmins. It attacks the traditional and orthodox principles of the Hindu religion. Sex is an integral part in various Hindu puranas and all the Brahamines of Durvasapura agrahara lead a dull and sterile as well as passive life by suppressing their sexual desire. During his preachings Pranesacharya glorifies the amorous sexual charms of legendary Shakuntala and admires Kalidasa for…

deity. Religion is something that all depends on the believers’ heart. There is no right or wrong about choosing which religion to be a part of. Every religion has the concept of ‘gods’ but just in different perspectives and aspects. The same goes to Hindu Trimurti and Biblical Trinity. Hinduism is generally known as polytheistic. It simply means that Hindus worship more than one god. Hinduism is the religion which everything can be their gods. Animals, plants, and things around Hindus are…

INTRODUCTION It is a well know fact that the colonizing of India by the British was not just done with “the power of superior arms, military organization, political power, or economic wealth – as important as these things were”, but it was “sustained and strengthened by cultural technologies of rule” (Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, ix). The British “had to devise novel, and exceptional, theories of governance,” (Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj Vol. 3, ix) as…