LPW (Indian Lit.)

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• Oral literature and written literature (appeared in India around 16th century during British colonization).
• The roots of Indian Literature may be traced to the Hindu Writings.
• The Hinduism ideology firmly believes in incarnation (cycle of being born)

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indian literature

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(The Creator, creation, knowledge and Vedas)

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brahma

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(The Preserver, protect humans and to restore order to the world)

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vishnu

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(means perfected)– sacred language of Hinduism, start of oral literature by Aryans

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sanskrit

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(The Destroyer, destroys to recreate and transform the universe)

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shiva

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• Pre-Hindu Vedic religion
• Oldest of vedas
• Hymns of supreme sacred knowledge
• Regarded as divinely inspired or heard directly from the gods

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rig veda

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four goals in life ….

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dharma - appropriate living
artha - wealth
kama - accumulation of good will
moksha - ultimate liberation from desire

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• Sitting at the feet of the teacher
• Consisted of a group of sketches, illustrations, explanations, and critical comments on the religious thought suggested the hymns of Rig-Veda
• Most important doctrine is the existence of single supreme being, the Brahman, and its union with the Atman or self

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the upanishads

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epics of india

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• ramayana
• mahabharata

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Literature was nurtured by caste system
- Brahman – scholars and priests
- Kshatriya – rulers, warriors
- Vaisya – merchants, land owners
- Sudra – laborers, commoners, peasant
- Dalits - slaves, untouchables

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classical literature

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• Considered as the genius writer in classical period
• Raghuvamsa (epic poem)
• Meghaduta (lyric poem about separated lovers)
• Shakuntala (poetic drama about love)

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kalidasa

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written in Sanskrit language which gave birth to literary words as early as 1500 BCE

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vedas

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• Hindu movement
• Devotional poems to Hindu gods and goddesses

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medieval literature

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• Anthology of Buddhist teaching in aphoristic style

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the dhammapada

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Collection of Indian animal fables, which has had extensive circulation both in the country of its origin and throughout the world. In Europe the work was known under the name The Fables of Bidpai (for the narrator, an Indian sage, Bidpai, called Vidyapati in Sanskrit), and one version reached the West as early as the 11th century.

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panchatantra

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• oldest extant collection of fables in Sanskrit literature
• originally intended to instruct a young prince in the conduct that would ensure his worldly success

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panchatantra

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(Pali: “Words of Doctrine” or “Way of Truth”) probably the best-known book in the Pali Buddhist canon. It is an anthology of basic Buddhist teachings in a simple aphoristic style. As the second text in the Khuddaka Nikaya (“Short Collection”) of the Sutta Pitaka (“Basket of Discourse”), the … contains 423 stanzas arranged in 26 chapters.

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dhammapada

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indian poet and dramatist

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rabindranath tagore

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greatest writer of plays (Shakuntala)

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kalidasa

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• Colonial to independence period of India
• Buddhist hymns from the 8th century
• Gitanjali (Song of Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore

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bengali literature