Author: Mataji Shelley Devi
Genre: Relition/ Vedism
Publisher: Peridot
ISBN: 9789389404531
Date: 2019
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Description: The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500-c 500 B.C.E) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, were being composed. Based on the literary evidence, scholars place the Vedic period in the second and first milennia B.C.E. continuing up to the sixth century B.C.E. The associated culture, sometimes referred to as Vedic Civilization, was centered in the northern and north western parts of Indian subcontinent. Its early phase saw the formation of various kingdoms of ancient India. In its late phase (from ca. 600 B.C.E.), it saw the rise of the Mahajanapadas, and was succeeded by the Maurya Empire (from ca. 320 B.C.E) the classical age of Sanskrit literature, and the Middle kingdoms of India.
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