... filled with Indian religious values and tenets. They were written in Sanskrit but were translated into other languages. This helped them become more accessible. The Ramayana is a huge poem that consists of nearly 50,000 lines. It tells the story of Ràma and his wife Sità. When Ràma was a young man he was a perfect son, and became a perfect husband. This story ... that if everyone fulfills his or her dharma or duty the land will prosper. According to Swami Vivekananda at http://www.hindunet.org/ramayana/ "Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of mor...

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... , translating, or challenging the Smriti. The Smriti includes the two great Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; the many SanskritPuranas, including 18 great Puranas and several dozen more subordinate Puranas; and the many Dharmashastras and Dharmasutras (textbooks on sacred law), of which the one attributed to the sage Manu is the most frequently cited. The two epics are built around central narratives. The Mahabharata tells of the war between the Pandava brothers, led their ... cousin Krishna, and their cousins the Kauravas. The Ramayana tells of the journey ... ...

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... . there are many sacred books of Hinduism. they are as follows: the Puranas, ramayana, mahabrata and the Rig vedas. The vedas is said to be the longest existing book. The Vedas are the Hindu scriptures. It is believed to have no real origin. The vedas is what formed the educational system and broadly comprised all the different spheres of life, biology, science, mathematics, ect. ancient India ... . The Almighty - "OM Poornamadam Poornaad Poornamudachyate; Poornasya Poornamaadaaya Poornamevaavashisyate" is told about in an unwritten portion of the ... a community developed around him or s...

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... receive more equality, it would only improve society. According to Wollstonecraft's tyranny of man, have been bought forward to prove, that the two sexes, in the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very different character; or, to speak explicitly, women are not allowed to ... from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard ourselves as beings who we were eventually to be married off, have children, serve the husband for numbers of decades. Other than this I found that there were a lot of things which really oppressed women, such as, If a ... to analyze th...

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... a chance for social mobility, although both class systems differed slightly from the other. In the ancient Indian world, women were expected to be subservient to men. We have seen this in the Ramayana. After rescuing Sita, Rama would not accept her back because she may ... have been raped while held in captivity. "Wives were instructed to be attentive to their husbands" needs and ready to obey their every command." Family was important in Indian culture. " [B]y the ... middle centuries of the last millennium B.C.E., the ... who your eating partners would be at a feast. There was hope ...

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In my paper I have traced the major touchstones in the history of performance in India, from the epics and the wandering bards to the contemporary theatre of modern India. The post-Vedic literary period marks an important phase in the making of Indian drama. The epics Ramayana and Mahabharata with their dialogue oriented poetic structures, the tradition of recitation by a whole class of reciters, have enriched Indian performance tradition and have ... given the country a distinctive performative culture. Indian culture is essentially the product of oral tradition, which forms the blueprint of...

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... . Hindu scriptures are written in Sanskrit, which is the ancient language of India. There is the Upanishads, which are later groups of writings that reflect a decline in the importance of the sacrificial rituals. The Puranas show another stage of Hinduism. These books are mythological epics describing the exploits of Vishnu or Shiva. Lastly there is the Ramayana that is one of the two great epics. It was a popular folk ... story before it was written down as a Sanskrit text. It tells the story of King Rama, who was another ... famous avatar of Krishna. In Buddhism the writings fall into...

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... . Hindu scriptures are written in Sanskrit, which is the ancient language of India. There is the Upanishads, which are later groups of writings that reflect a decline in the importance of the sacrificial rituals. The Puranas show another stage of Hinduism. These books are mythological epics describing the exploits of Vishnu or Shiva. Lastly there is the Ramayana that is one of the two great epics. It was a popular folk ... story before it was written down as a Sanskrit text. It tells the story of King Rama, who was another ... famous avatar of Krishna. In Buddhism the writings fall into...

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... have one "Holy Book" like many other religions, but many texts including the four Vedas along with their Upanishads, called the "Sruti", several Dharma Sasthras or Smrutis, Ithihasas and Puranas including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The Bhagavad Gita, or "Song of God", comes as part of Mahabaratha, is an essence of the message of the Upanishads and Hindu Philosophy and is considered to be a guide on how ... we should live as told by Lord Krishna to Arjuna. 5. Hindus believe that as all streams and rivers lead to the same ocean, all genuine ... religious (spiritual) paths lead to ...

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... to grant their respective wishes, and the most controlled and successful sacarifice enable men to gain control over body and actions and ultimately the entire universe. Fire also enable the dispelling of evil spirits and hostile magic as seen in the epic Ramayana. Hence, due to the immense power of fire, the common people idiolize fire and treat it as the lord of the house. All sacred vows and ... bonds are taken with God as the witness in the form of fire. Thus, men attain happiness ... by appeasing Agni and completing proper fire rituals. As time passed, the Upanishads formed the end...

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... . These are then divided into smaller sections within the parts. The Vedas contain history, "rules," and rituals that the Hindus know and live by. Along with the Vedas there are other books containing scripture that they hold very highly, ex. The Ramayana, Tirukural, Tirmuantiram, The Upanishads (a philosophical treatise portion of the Vedas.) There is also the Agamas, which is considered equal to the Vedas. Most people tend to think that ... the Hindus believe that your soul is reincarnated into another human body forever. This is not true. The reincarnation involves karma. Karma, often...

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