Ramayana

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

lower because in government women had no place in the military and no influence in politics. In India women were lower because only men could be priests, landowners, and warriors which were the top castes, and religious texts like Mahabharata and Ramayana portrayed women as weak and emotional considering the best women to be dutiful to her husband. While patriarchy was formed by religion in India, it was formed by government in China. In India the caste system developed sub-castes, Jati, based…

The fate of most Indian women in a male dominating society is that they have no liberty to express their feelings. The dramatist establishes the concept that the plight of the Indian women is such that they are doomed to be always at the mercy of the men folk. Right from the ancient days, till the present, with certain exceptions, the situation has remained the same. Even Chitralekha, in spite of her being the daughter-in-law of the Bharatha family, is not an exception. Like most women in India,…

In David A. Lemmings book, The World of Myth, I learned more about the importance of the many gods and goddesses. Lemming explains the relationship between the stories of gods and humanity. He states that “their relationship is a human relationship, their family is a reflection of our families, their hierarchies mirror ours” (Pg. 87). Lemming believes that the deities are there to help us learn how to get over problems that we face in our own realities. He also believes that mythology give…

Most religion has one God that they worship and pray to; however, many also believe in more than one god for guidance through life. Being monotheistic means praying to only one God to help guide someone through their difficulties in life and that God has a plan for them. Being polytheistic is praying to more than one god because many gods can represent many things in life and praying to that specific god can help someone through that specific obstacle. For Hindus, believing in more than one…

jeopardized production progress at any time in the future. Hence organic farming is the wise answer to the aforesaid problems (Bhattacharya and pandey 2004). There are brief mentions of several organic inputs in our ancient literatures like Rig-Veda, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Kautilya, and Arthasashthra. Mention of organic manure in Rig Veda 1, 161, 10, 2500-1500BC and mention of Green manure in Atharva Veda 11, 8.3 (1000BC). In fact, organic agriculture has its roots in traditional agricultural…

Economists, theologians, and sociologists have all hypothesized why societies, both Christian and Hindu, continue to embrace defined gender roles. Economically, financially independent women are often perceived as a threat. An Oregon survey of engineers reported, “Men maintained their objection (to the pay increase of women ) even though their own wage would not be lowered if the women’s wage were increased” (Aker 456) . A proposed explanation was the potential degradation of a man’s…

RELEVANCE OF MAHABHARAT IN PRESENT TIMES Mahabharata, written by Maharishi Ved Vyas, is one of the two great epics of ancient India. It is one of the greatest stories ever told and is undoubtedly one of the most vast, vivid and detailed epics of the world. It is not a story, it is not a poem not even an epic but rather a philosophy about humans, the evolution of their thought process and the battles of their interests. The account holds true and relevant even in current times. It is said that…

Hindu salvation is a very strange and easy concept to understand. There are a lot of people in the world today that want things easy. From fast food to shopping on line. Not that these things are bad, they are just easy. Salvation is easy when you do not have to work for it and the Hindu form of salvation is one of them. I'm not sure if we can choose all of it or some of it; it all seems too "wishy washy.” Many do believe in something like this, but like I stated, it is easy. The Hindu form of…

His themes also were varied, as it was usually treated in a series. It included topics as diverse as the Ramayana to Mother Teresa, the British Raj to the Mahabharata, and motifs of Indian urban and rural society. Although his paintings depicted a violent understanding of the human condition, some of which caused some controversies. Muqbool Fida Husain, (also…