Essay On Rig-Vedic Society

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Maker of The Rig-Vedic Society

uklrks fo|rs Hkkoks ukHkkoks fo|rs lr%A mHk;ksjfi n`"Vks•UrLRou;ksLrŸonf’kZfHk%AA Jhen~Hkxon~xhrk@ v0&2@16 The Rig-Vedic society is a wonderful gift of Nature to the human race in the land of the five rivers. The earth is the motherland of human society but the surface of the mother earth astro-geographically is not the same everywhere. A part of it is astro-geographically blessed with six eco-friendly seasons in a year; its other parts are not so equally blessed. These differences in regional astro-geographical conditions have naturally directed the regional primitive inhabitants to develop the socio-economic structure with the natural resources daily renewably available in the region. The objective of this chapter is to prove the Rig-Vedic socio-economic management a …show more content…

Rig-Vedic hymns expressing the material experiences of the seers of the Rig-Vedic society. Up to now the Rig-Vedic society has been interpreted and analyzed by …show more content…

Schaffer, at Case Western University, writes in “Migration Philology and South Asian Archeology” that there is an indigenous development of civilization in India going back at least to 6000 B.C. He proposes that the Rigvedic civilization initially crops up in the surrounding of the Sarswati River described in the RigVedic text. The river dries up due to environmental changes and this has forced the Rig-Vedic people to make their new abode in the surrounding of the Indus River. He mentions that the movement of populations away from the Sarswati to the Ganges after the Saraswati dries up in about 1900 BC is reflected in the changes from the Sarswati- based literature of the Rig Veda to the Ganges based literature of Itihas and Puranic text. He also states that the AIT reflects a colonial and Euro-Centric perspective that is quit out of date. He

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