Treta Yuga

narrative, the Ramayana’s textual history and formation dates back to centuries before the Mahabharata, during the Kurukshetra War as believed by Hindu religion and archaeological findings. In tradition, it belongs to the second of 4 yugas or eons, which is Treta Yuga in the Hindu chronology and is considered kavya poetry. The profound thinker and poet, Valmiki is credited for single handedly conceptualizing the Ramayana 's original version known as the Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, originally written

The Vedic period lasted from c. 1750 to 500 BCE. The Vedic texts were arranged when the Indo-Aryans started to inhabit the Ganges-plain. With this new settlement, it transitioned to an agricultural society, and in the need for organization the society created a hierarchical government. The society had to include older habitants of the Ganges-plain, and incorporated them under the Aryan varnas. They also had to appoint political and religious authority to the Brahmins and Kshatriyas. The Vedas, also

The Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic poem ascribed to the Hindu sage and Sanskrit poet Valmiki. The Ramayana also plays an important role in Hindu literature . It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife, and the ideal king. The name Ramayana is a tatpurusha compound of ' and ', translating to "Rama 's Journey". The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven books and 500 cantos, and tells the story

Final Exam Questions 1. 10 incarnations of Vishnu 1) Matsya – The fish a) Shatapatha Brahmana (900 BCE) -Manu was brought water for ablutions (washing hands), when a fish came into his hands and said “care for me, and I will save you” - fish said : “ A flood will carry all these creatures and I will save you from it” -destruction of fish is great, as fish eat fish -told Manu to keep him in a pot, and then a trench, and once he outgrew it, to put him in the ocean and for then he said , “I