Question

1. What is Tamilakam?
2. Who was Menander?
3. Who were the Parthians?
4. Who were the Sakas? How was their kingdom administered?
5. What is the difference between Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

ans1. Tamilakam, the abode of the Tamils, was defined in cankam literature as approximately equivalent to the area south of present-day Chennai (Madras).

ans2. Menander was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. 

ans3. The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient iran. ans4. Sakas belonged to Scythian Ethnic stock. Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows.

ans5. Mahayana

1. Mahayana Buddhism consider Gautama Buddha to be a divine being who will help his followers to attain nirvana.

2. Followers of Mahayana Buddhism can be found in China, (South) Korea, Japan and Tibet.

3. Scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism were written Sanskrit.

4. The three bodies of a Buddha are accepted in Mahayana Buddhism. They are as follows:

•Nirmanakaya

•Sambhogakaya

•Dharmakaya

Hinayana

1. Hinayana Buddhist consider Gautama Buddha as an ordinary human being who attained Nirvana.

2. Hinayana Buddhism is followed in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.

3. Scriptures of Hinayana Buddhism were written in Pali.

4. Hinayana does not believe in the three bodies of a Buddha as they believe an individual must find its own path to salvation.

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Answer 2

Answer:

ans 1- Tamilakam, the abode of the Tamils, was defined in cankam literature as approximately equivalent to the area south of present-day Chennai (Madras). Tamilakam was divided into 13 nadus (districts), of which the region of Madurai was the most important as the core of the Tamil.

ans 2- Menander was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular.

ans 3-The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. 

ans 4- the Scythians, the Sakas were ultimately derived from the earlier Andronovo culture. Their language formed part of the Scythian.

ans 5- Buddhism is divided into two main religious groups Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism (also known as Theravada). ... One of the differences is that Mahayana Buddhists believe that The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) is a God but Hinayana Buddhists believe that The Buddha was an ordinary Human.

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