Fundamentals of Indian Culture: A Modernistic View of Ancient Traditions - Tapa dura

Fundamentals of Indian Culture A Modernistic View of Ancient Traditions

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Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd
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Descripción 25 plates Ilustrador. Contents Preface 1 Vedas 2 Varnashram Dharma 3 Hindu Samskara 4 Purushartha Goals of human pursuit 5 Doctrine of Avatara 6 Sagaramanthan Churninco of ocean mythology 7 Pilgrimage Tirthyatra 8 Panchayatana worship of five deities 9 Idol worship and erotica in temples 10 Principal Hindu deities Appendices Indian culture has been Veda centric It was therefore considered necessary to make a rapid survey of what constitutes the Veda in the beginning Vedas are the oldest literature of the world they are the holy books of the Hindus and are the foundation of Hindu religion Vedo akhilo dharma mulam and such the chief object of the nations greatest reverence and admiration They have been so thoroughly and religiously preserved that despite their huge bulk and elapse of thousands of years since their codification not a single variation in the reading has been detected No country has taken care so meticulously and tediously to preserve its heritage as the Hindus In the 2nd chapter dealing with Varnashrama Dharma the distinction between Varna and Jati which are loosely translated by caste has been clearly brought out In the Varna theory we have the blue print for an ideal social organization Caste system symbolizes an attempt to institutionalize that ideal Like many other ideals Varna ideal was based on sound psychological principles But when it was put into actual practice the lofty ideal gradually became blurred and the caste system was reduced to a caricature of the noble principles of Verna ideal and the laudable ideal of mutual cooperation was transformed into mutual recrimination Economic interests of different sections of the society brought forth all the evils of the caste system Varna system insisted on duties dharma But over the times privileged sections laid emphasis on their rights ignoring their duties This chapter also deals with the relationship between gotra and totem It is commonly believed that members of a particular clan gotra are descendants of a common ancestor that mythetical common ancestor being an animal or a plant or a bird that invariably is the totem of the clan or family Examples of similarity of gotra and totem names have also been explored in this chapter 209 pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 84918

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